Flash Flood, Garfield
- When
- August 26, 2:00 PM MST to 4:00 PM MST
- Where
- Garfield County, Escalante Area
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 37.855, -111.443 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Utah, August 26, 1996
Thunderstorms brought heavy downpours to Garfield county as well. Flash flooding occurred on the Escalante River in several places.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $100,000
- 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 SLC wrote it up.
Thunderstorms brought heavy downpours to Garfield county as well. Flash flooding occurred on the Escalante River in several places. The bridge leading into the Escalante Petrified Forest State Park was damaged by flood waters. Logs and debris were washed across the road in Main Canyon. In the Alvey Wash drainage just south of Escalante, two women in a pick-up truck were nearly drowned. Their pick-up truck stalled on the bridge and they were forced to climb out of the vehicle. By-standers formed a human-chain and rescued the trapped women. Minutes later the pick-up was washed away. They found the vehicle a half-mile downstream filled with mud, a total loss.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Idaho, August 26, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, August 26 to 27, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, August 26, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 26, 1996
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 26, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, August 26 to 27, 1996
- Hail in South Carolina, August 26, 1996
- Hail in Vermont, August 26, 1996
- Hail in Texas, August 26, 1996
- Hail in Vermont, August 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 26, 1996
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 26, 1996
More
Every storm in Utah in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Utah, August 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: 5570138.