Heavy rain from late morning to early afternoon caused flash flooding across most of Ste. Genevieve County.
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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.
The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
Heavy rain from late morning to early afternoon caused flash flooding across most of Ste. Genevieve County. Several county roads, some with low water crossings, became impassable. Two people, a 78 year old man and a 66 year old woman, lost their lives when they tried to drive a van across a flooded low water crossing on the Lawrenceton cut-off, a road off Route Y. The road had been flooded by a swollen Fourche De Clos Creek. A Highway Department sign at the crossing warned of the road being impassable during high water. Another adult suffered a broke leg while a 12 year old boy escaped with cuts and bruises.
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:43 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood, Ste. Genevieve (C) | 1996-05-05 | 78 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
| Flash Flood, Ste. Genevieve (C) | 1996-05-05 | 66 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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