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Natural disasters · April–October 1993Open article references →
The Great Flood of 1993
Mississippi–Missouri river flood region · United States
Why editors use it hereFederal hydrologic analysis of streamflow, precipitation, inundation, and records.
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Persistent rain from spring through summer 1993 saturated the upper Mississippi and Missouri basins, producing months of record or near-record flooding across nine states.
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Trigger and conditions
From June into August, recurring thunderstorms delivered extraordinary rain over Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.
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Uncertainty
Fatality totals vary from forty-eight to about fifty depending on geography and indirect deaths.
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Why it matters
The 1993 flood demonstrates that a river basin is one connected system even when levees and governments divide it.
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