Flash Flood, Loudoun
- When
- June 24, 3:40 PM EST to 4:10 PM EST
- Where
- Loudoun County, 2 mi SW of Leesburg
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Coordinates
- 39.091, -77.636 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Virginia, June 24, 1996
Downpours on previously saturated soil produced flash flooding in the Leesburg area, where two and one-half inches of rain fell in 45 minutes. One motorist was trapped in his automobile just off federal highway 15 along local route 704; a rescue ensued.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $8,000
- 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.
Downpours on previously saturated soil produced flash flooding in the Leesburg area, where two and one-half inches of rain fell in 45 minutes. One motorist was trapped in his automobile just off federal highway 15 along local route 704; a rescue ensued. The Town Branch in Leesburg overflowed its banks, flooding a parking lot and washing away a portable swimming pool. Several basements were also flooded.
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:41 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
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- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 24, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 24, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 24, 1996
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 24, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 24, 1996
- Tornado in Maryland, June 24, 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: 5560568.