Flash Flood in Colorado, July 31, 1997

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

None recorded

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.

The Denver radar (KFTG), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:30 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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.

• Lightning Strike in Texas, July 31, 19971 death · 1 event
• Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 31, 1997$165,000 · 2 events
• Flash Flooding in Nebraska, July 31, 1997$100,000 · 2 events
• Waterspout in Florida, July 31, 1997$50,000 · 1 event
• High Surf in Hawaii, July 31, 19976 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, July 31, 1997$5,000 · 0.75 in hail · 3 events
• Wildfire and Damaging Wind in Idaho, July 31, 199750 kt wind · 3 events
• Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 31, 1997$5,000 · 2 events
• Cold in Georgia, July 31, 19971 event
• Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, July 31, 19971 event
• Flood in Puerto Rico, July 31, 19971 event
• Hail in Florida, July 31, 19970.75 in hail · 1 event

Every storm in Colorado in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 1997

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: 5607517.