Flash Flood, Orange
- When
- June 18, 3:45 PM EST to 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- Orange County, 6 mi SE of Somerset
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 38.246, -78.013 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Virginia, June 18, 1996
5 inches of rain in a 2-hour period onto extreme western Orange Co, producing localized flash flooding. At the Sleepy Hollow Inn, an overflowing creek flooded a bridge.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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 LWX wrote it up.
A nearly stationary thunderstorm dumped between 2.5 and 3.5 inches of rain in a 2-hour period onto extreme western Orange Co, producing localized flash flooding. At the Sleepy Hollow Inn, an overflowing creek flooded a bridge. A nearby farm field had 2 inches of water nearly covering the grass. Several trees were knocked down by the raging flood waters along Blue Run.
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:46 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
- Flash Flood in Michigan, June 18, 1996
- Flood in Wisconsin, June 18 to 30, 1996
- Flood in Wisconsin, June 18 to 20, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 18, 1996
- Tropical Storm in North Carolina, June 18 to 19, 1996
- Flood in Wisconsin, June 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 18, 1996
- Tropical Storm in North Carolina, June 18 to 19, 1996
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Maryland, June 18 to 19, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 18, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, June 18, 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: 5560997.