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Part of: Putnam County Area Flooding — August 2026 →
Flood Warning issued August 15 at 8:33AM CDT until August 15 at 2:30PM CDT by NWS Quad Cities IA IL
This is a severe-significance flood warning event affecting Lee, IA, tracked from official feeds (NOAA / National Weather Service). We update this page as the situation develops.
- Type
- Flood Warning
- Extent
- ≈ 241,220 acres
- Began
- To end
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Latest updates
Official updates and news coverage for this event, newest first — National Weather Service products, local storm reports, incident updates and press headlines. Official items are verbatim government text; news headlines link out to the original outlet.
- Storm report NWS DVN storm report
FLASH FLOOD — 1 N Colchester, IL
Gravel road washed out near this location on County Road E 600 and N Hun St.
- Storm report NWS DVN storm report
FLASH FLOOD — 1 N Colchester, IL
Corrects the time of the previous flash flood report from 1 N Colchester. Gravel road washed out near this location on County Road E 600 and N Hun St.
- Storm report NWS DVN storm report
FLASH FLOOD — Macomb, IL
Several city streets flooded with water over 1 foot deep in spots.
- Bulletin NWS Quad Cities IA IL
Flood Warning issued
Lee, IA
Show 2 earlier updates
- CBS News News
Indiana's White River breaks 1913 flooding record as governor declares state of emergency
- NWS DVN storm report Storm report
Updates are captured automatically from official and news sources, and may lag the live source. For the very latest, see NOAA / National Weather Service ↗.