Flood, Roberts
- When
- May 23, 6:00 AM CST to 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Roberts County, 3.45 mi S of Claire City to 1.38 mi S of Hammer
- Cause
- Heavy Rain / Snow Melt
- Reported by
- River/Stream Gage
- Coordinates
- 45.800, -97.100
Flood in South Dakota, May 23, 2019
Heavy rainfall in late May brought the Little Minnesota River near Peever quickly above and below flood stage on May 23rd. 6 feet.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS ABR wrote it up.
Heavy rainfall in late May brought the Little Minnesota River near Peever quickly above and below flood stage on May 23rd. The river rose to six tenths of a foot above flood stage to 17.6 feet.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 22, 5:47 PM CST, 12 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 5:47 PM CST, 12 hours 13 minutes before
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The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, May 23 to 24, 2019
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Nebraska, May 23, 2019
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 23, 2019
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 23, 2019
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 23, 2019
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Iowa, May 23 to 24, 2019
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 23, 2019
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 23, 2019
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 23, 2019
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 23, 2019
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 23, 2019
- Damaging Winds in New York, May 23, 2019
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, May 2019
Sources
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 827040.