And then the rains came. (upper Mississippi River Valley flood) (The Great Flood of 1993, part...

On June 27,1993 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that rising flood waters would force them to close the Mississippi River to navigation from St. Paul, Minnesota downstream to St. Louis, Missouri. Indeed, the Corps predicted the second-highest flood level on record for the Mississippi. Thus the nation got its first inkling of what would become the worst flooding in the upper Mississippi River Valley in recent history.

The catastrophic flooding during the summer of 1993 was a direct result of unique weather conditions that caused excessive precipitation to fall