Flash Flood, Wayne
- When
- April 29, 8:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST
- Where
- Wayne County, Centerville
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 39.864, -85.010 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Indiana, April 29, 1996
Stuyes road at East 4679 located northwest of Centerville collapsed due to high water associated with Nolands fork. Road remained under water most of the day.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $5,000
- 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 ILN wrote it up.
Stuyes road at East 4679 located northwest of Centerville collapsed due to high water associated with Nolands fork. Road remained under water most of the day.
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:57 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, April 29, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, April 29, 1996
- Frost and Freeze in Colorado, April 29, 1996
- Flooding in Indiana, April 29 to 30, 1996
- Flooding in Indiana, April 29 to 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 29, 1996
- Tornado in Mississippi, April 29, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 29, 1996
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 29, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, April 29, 1996
More
Every storm in Indiana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, April 1996
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5561328.