Summary of 7/4/00 heavy rain event:Slow-moving showers and thunderstorms moved across portions of eastern Iowa and west central Illinois. Torrential rains of up to two inches resulted in street, highway, and small creek flooding.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS DVN wrote it up.
Summary of 7/4/00 heavy rain event:Slow-moving showers and thunderstorms moved across portions of eastern Iowa and west central Illinois. Torrential rains of up to two inches resulted in street, highway, and small creek flooding. See individual reports above for additional details.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement reported heavy rains resulted in creeks throughout the county rising out of their banks.
Law enforcement reported heavy rains flooded a railroad underpass.
Law enforcement reported heavy rain resulted in standing water on Highway 61.
Law enforcement reported water covering a portion of Highway 218.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, July 2000
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5155111, 5155112, 5155113, 5155114.