The Great Flood of 1993
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The Great Flood of 1993 occurred from May through September along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and their tributaries. Major flooding occurred across North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Illinois resulting in over 50 deaths and billions of dollars in damages.
August 1, 2003, was the 10th anniversary of the "Flood of 1993," referred to by many as the "Great Flood" or "Record Flood of 1993." The Great Flood of 1993 constituted the most costly and devastating flood to ravage the United States in modern history. Levees were broken, farmland, town, and transportation routes were destroyed, thousands of people were forced to abandon their homes, and 47 people died as a direct result of the flood.
The Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reported that the flood caused enormous human suffering. At least 75 towns were completely inundated, some of which have not been rebuilt. The Great Flood of 1993 inundated more than 20 million acres in nine states. Approximately 54,000 people had to be evacuated from flooded areas at some time during the flood, and approximately 50,000 homes were destroyed or damaged. Losses were estimated at 15 to 20 billion dollars.
In May 2003 ten years after the flood, the US Department of Homeland Security published a 10th-Anniversary Anthology of Stories of Hardship and Triumph.
The Great Flood of 1993 on the Upper Mississippi River—10 years later
Ten years ago, the upper Mississippi River Basin in the Midwestern United States experienced the costliest flood in the history of the United States. The flood came to be known as “ The Great Flood of 1993.”
Johnson, Gary P.; Holmes, Robert R.; Waite, Loyd A.
The 1903 and 1993 floods in Kansas--the effects of changing times and technology
Combs, Lanna J.; Perry, Charles A.
Significant Floods in the United States During the 20th century - USGS Measures a Century of Floods
Perry, Charles A.
Physical and chemical data on sediments deposited in the Missouri and the Mississippi River flood plains during the July through August 1993 flood
Because sediments deposited by the 1993 floods on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers were thought to contain elevated concentrations of nutrients and trace elements, sediment deposits were sampled at 25 floodplain locations. The samples were analyzed for particle size, water content, volatile solids, nutrients, carbon, selected trace elements,...
Schalk, Gregg K.; Holmes, Robert R.; Johnson, Gary P.
Summary of floods in the United States, January 1992 through September 1993
This volume contains a summary of the flooding in the upper Mississippi River Basin during the spring and summer of 1993 and 36 articles describing severe, widespread, or unusual flooding in the United States from January 1, 1992, to the end of the 1993 water year, September 30, 1993. Each flood is described to an extent commensurate with its...
Perry, Charles A.; Combs, L.J.; Arvin, Donald V.
Delineation of flooding within the upper Mississippi River Basin, flood of August 1-3, 1993, in St. Louis and vicinity, Missouri
A five-sheet hydrologic investigations atlas provides flood-peak elevation data and delineates the areal extent of flooding of the Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Meramec Rivers and the River des Peres in St. Louis and vicinity from August 1 through 3, 1993. The August 1993 flood is compared with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA...
Alexander, Terry W.
The chemical quality of overbank sediment deposited by the 1993 floods and streambed sediment in major streams at selected sites in eastern Nebraska
No abstract available.
Druliner, A.D.; Chen, A.H.; Hull, S.H.
Hydrologic, sedimentologic, and chemical data describing surficial bed sediments in the navigation pools of the upper Mississippi River, after the flood of 1993
Moody, John A.
Simulation of the effect of traffic barricades on backwater along US Highway 54 at Jefferson City, Missouri-1993 flood on the Missouri River
Southard, R.E.
Flood of July 9-11, 1993, in the Raccoon River basin, west-central Iowa
Water-surface-elevation profiles and peak discharges for the flood of July 9-11, 1993, in the Raccoon River Basin, west-central Iowa, are presented in this report. The profiles illustrate the 1993 flood along the Raccoon, North Raccoon, South Raccoon, and Middle Raccoon Rivers and along Brushy and Storm Creeks in the west-central Iowa counties of...
Eash, D.A.; Koppensteiner, B.A.
Scour, sedimentation, and sediment characteristics at six levee-break sites in Missouri from the 1993 Missouri River Flood
Schalk, G.K.; Jacobson, R.B.
Effects of the 1993 flood on the determination of flood magnitude and frequency in Iowa
To evaluate the effects of the 1993 flood in the upper Mississippi River Basin on the determination of flood magnitude and frequency, discharges that had recurrence intervals of 10, 25, 50, and 100 years computed from data through the 1992 water year were compared with those computed from data through the 1993 water year for 62 selected streamflow...
Eash, David A.