Flash Flood in California, July 22, 1997

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.

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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.

• Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, July 22, 1997$604,000 · 1.85 in hail · 19 events
• Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 22, 1997$530,000 · 50 kt wind · 3 events
• Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 22, 1997$500,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Texas, July 22, 1997$104,000 · 3 events
• Flash Flood in Iowa, July 22, 1997$105,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 22, 1997$100,000 · 50 kt wind · 1 event
• Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 22, 1997$70,000 · 1 event
• Hail in South Dakota, July 22, 1997$70,000 · 2 in hail · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 22, 1997$60,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 22, 1997$58,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, July 22, 1997$40,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Alabama, July 22, 1997$25,000 · 1 event

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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: 5610205.