Flash Flood, Frederick
- When
- July 1, 4:30 PM EST to 5:15 PM EST
- Where
- Frederick County, Walkersville
- Coordinates
- 39.472, -77.398 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Maryland, July 1, 1996
7 inches of rain in northern Frederick Co. Two other local roads were temporarily closed due to high water.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 LWX wrote it up.
High standing water briefly closed state route 26, and flooded a portion of the Walkersville carnival grounds, when stationary thunderstorms dumped between 2 and 2.7 inches of rain in northern Frederick Co. Two other local roads were temporarily closed due to high water.
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 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
- Heat in Oklahoma, July 1 to 7, 1996
- Heat in Texas, July 1 to 9, 1996
- Heat in Texas, July 1 to 9, 1996
- Drought in Texas, July 1 to 31, 1996
- Heat in Texas, July 1 to 9, 1996
- Heat in Louisiana, July 1, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 1, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 1, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 1, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 1, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, July 1, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, July 1, 1996
More
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5568036.