Flash Flood, Copr River Basin / Glennallen
- When
- August 13, 2:00 PM AST to August 14, 8:20 AM AST
- Where
- Copr River Basin / Glennallen County, McCarthy
- Property damage
- $10,000
Flash Flood in Alaska, August 13 to 14, 1997
Heavy rains in the northern and eastern Copper River Basin Tuesday night and Wednesday caused a significant rise in water levels on the McCarthy Creek (in the town of McCarthy). A footbridge was washed out Wednesday afternoon and the "old powerhouse" in McCarthy was within 6 inches of flooding.
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 AFC wrote it up.
Heavy rains in the northern and eastern Copper River Basin Tuesday night and Wednesday caused a significant rise in water levels on the McCarthy Creek (in the town of McCarthy). A footbridge was washed out Wednesday afternoon and the "old powerhouse" in McCarthy was within 6 inches of flooding. Along the McCarthy Road...from Crystal Lake to McCarthy, water was reported blowing over the road at low spots where no culverts existed.
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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- Flood in Florida, August 13, 1997
- Tornado in New Jersey, August 13, 1997
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- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, August 13, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, August 13, 1997
- Lightning Strikes in Pennsylvania, August 13, 1997
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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: 5619455.