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9 years ago today Dubuque experienced record rains and flooding
On July 27th and 28th a storm system "stalled" over our area and caused historic rainfall and extreme flash flooding. Lots of rainfall records were broken including:
- Most rainfall ever on July 27th in Dubuque: 7.47 inches fell on 7/27/11 (previous record was 3.10 inches in 1896)
- Most rainfall ever on July 28th in Dubuque: 3.27 inches fell on 7/28/11 (previous record was 2.30 inches in 1990)
- Most rainfall ever on a single day in July in Dubuque: 7.47 inches fell on 7/27/11 (previous record was 6.28 inches on July 1, 1961)
- Most rainfall ever in a 24-hour period in Dubuque: 10.62 inches fell from the evening of 7/27/11 through the morning of 7/28/11 (previous record was 8.96 inches on 8/21-22/2002)
- Most rainfall ever for the month of July in Dubuque: The monthly total as of 7/27/11 (and through the end of the month) was 16.01 inches (previous record for July was 12.68 inches in 2010)
- Most rainfall ever for a single month in Dubuqe: The monthly total as of 7/27/11 (and through the end of the month) was 16.01 inches (previous record for any single month was 15.46 inches in September 1965)
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