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The Sioux County sheriff's Facebook page said evacuations also were underway in Hawarden on the Big Sioux River, which likewise experienced record flooding. The city of Akron, just downstream, was ...
Graphics from this weekend's flooding show the extent of flooding in northwest Iowa. In Saturday's flooding, the Rock River in northwest Iowa exceeded its typical volume by more than 100 times.
The Little Sioux River tore through the bottom of the town, destroying at least two homes, flooding soybean fields and a public park. The river raged so loudly that it sounded like white-water rapids.
The Big Sioux River at Riverside in Sioux City crested at 45 feet around 8 a.m. Monday morning — seven feet higher than the previous record of 37.7 feet, according to a news release from Sioux City.
There were enough rain and river swelling in the Des Moines, Rock and Little Sioux rivers, among others, to break flood level records at 16 locations in Iowa, Reynolds said.
The hardest hit areas were south of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The city’s airport received more than 7 inches (17.8 centimeters). More than 11 inches (28 centimeters) fell in Rock Rapids, Iowa ...
Matthew Dux,, lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which handles forecasting for northwest Iowa, said the flooding was on par with historic Missouri ...
To the south in Sioux City and Woodbury County, Iowa, officials responded to residents’ complaints that they had received little warning of the flooding and its severity. Sioux City Fire Marshal ...