Heavy snowfall and frigid temperatures in the Midwestern United States were followed by a late winter storm in mid-March of 2019. The combined effect produced heavy flooding along the Missouri River and its tributaries throughout Nebraska and Iowa.
The Landsat and Sentinel satellites, whose data is housed at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center near Sioux Falls, SD, each captured clear views of the flooding on March 16, 2019.
Satellite imagery archived by USGS EROS is available to download at no cost through earthexplorer.usgs.gov, landsatlook.usgs.gov, and glovis.usgs.gov.