Flash Flood, Dixon
- When
- July 16, 9:15 PM CST to July 17, 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- Dixon County, 5 mi W of Newcastle
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 42.493, -96.868 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Nebraska, July 16 to 17, 1996
Heavy rains of 6 to 10 inches caused flash flooding of roads and lowlands with no travel advised by local authorities. Several motorists were stranded and had to be rescued during the early morning hours.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- 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
- $500,000
- 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 FSD wrote it up.
Heavy rains of 6 to 10 inches caused flash flooding of roads and lowlands with no travel advised by local authorities. Several motorists were stranded and had to be rescued during the early morning hours. Basement flooding was widespread. Crop damage was suspected but could not be separated from damage caused by widespread hail from the same storm.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:13 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
- Flood in Iowa, July 16 to 18, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 16, 1996
- High Wind in California, July 16, 1996
- Flood in Iowa, July 16 to 18, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 16, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 16, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 16, 1996
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, July 16, 1996
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, July 16 to 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, July 16 to 17, 1996
- Flood in Nebraska, July 16 to 17, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 16, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5556817.