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Since its inception in November 2013, the River Ice and Flooding Initiative has grown, serving regions affected by ice jam…
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![Recent Ohio River Flooding Detected by Satellites](/s3/migrated/iod312.jpg)
On March 6, the River Flood product showed flooding along the Ohio River on the Kentucky/Illinois/Indiana border.
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![Severe Storms Trigger Flooding From Texas to Wisconsin](/s3/migrated/20190508-centralUS.jpg)
Severe storms and heavy rain continue to trigger flooding from Texas to Wisconsin. Flash flooding across Houston and parts…
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![Kentucky and Missouri Devastated by Flash Flooding](/s3/2022-08/2022_08_04_KYandMODevastedbyFlooding_STILL_NO_TEXT.png)
Hundreds of miles apart, but connected by the same weather system, urban St. Louis and rural Appalachia have experienced…
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![Intense Storms in the Northeast Cause Catastrophic Flooding](/s3/2023-07/Water_vapor_US_July_9_2023.png)
Intense rainstorms that left a trail of damage across the Northeast brought particularly heavy rain and flooding to Vermont.
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![Slow Moving Storms Flood Texas](/s3/2024-05/GOES-16-Flooding-storms-for-eastern-Texas-April-28-2024.png)
NOAA’s GOES East (GOES-16) satellite watched severe thunderstorms that brought tornadoes, damaging winds and flooding rain…
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![Suomi NPP Keeps an Eye on Hazardous River Ice and Floods](/s3/migrated/suomi_npp_google_earth.gif)
As part of the River Ice and Flooding Initiative, NOAA scientists with the Joint Polar Satellite System are working with…
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![NOAA Satellites Provide Detailed Imagery of Michigan Floods](/s3/migrated/midlandphoto.jpg)
Tuesday, May 26, 2020During a recent major flooding event, scientists unveiled a newly-developed algorithm derived from…
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![Satellite Imagery of Near-Record Flooding Along Mississippi and Ohio Rivers](/s3/migrated/721_20110428-Cairo2011.jpg)
As of April 29, 2011, the National Weather Service lists 369 locations around in the country as flooded, based on river…
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![Rising Sea Levels and Sirocco Winds Worsen Flooding for Venice](/s3/migrated/Venicetimeditfinal.jpg)
The NOAA-20 satellite captured imagery of Venice, Italy, on Nov. 14, 2019, after devastating floods disrupted essential…
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![NOAA Satellites Help Locate Flooding After Cyclone in Mozambique](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
January 27, 2021 The image above, created from VIIRS data from the Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 satellites, shows the extent of…
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![GOES East Sees Moderate Flooding in Mississippi River Delta and Mobile Bay](/s3/migrated/2020-01-15.jpg)
On Jan. 15, 2020, GOES East captured this image of the Mississippi River Delta and Mobile Bay as it experienced flash…
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![NOAA Satellites Capture Flooding from Dam Failure in Midland, Michigan](/s3/2021-06/20200520-VIIRS_Flooding%20%281%29.png)
May 21, 2020 On May 20, 2020, the VIIRS instrument , aboard both the Suomi-NPP (S-NPP) and NOAA-20 satellites, showed record…
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Kate Abshire has served as the National Flash Flood Services Lead in the Water Resources Services Branch since 2017.
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NOAA’s GOES-16 and NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP provide FEMA with the first comprehensive view of flood zones, and aircraft see the…