Minnesota is also prone to both river flooding and localized flash flooding by extended periods of heavy late-spring and summer rainfall . The Great Flood of 1993 on the Mississippi River was caused by copious amounts of rain that fell after the spring snow melt . The 2007 Midwest flooding , which affected the hilly Driftless area of southeast Minnesota was the result of a training pattern of storms mixing warm moist air from Tropical Storm Erin with cooler Canadian air , resulting in record 24-hour rainfall totals of up to , with a similar flooding event in 2010 as a result of the remnants of tropical storm Georgette in the eastern Pacific and Hurricane Karl in the Gulf of Mexico
Great Flood of 1993
Great Flood of 1993
Climate of Minnesota