Flash Flood in Hawaii, January 4, 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.

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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.

• Blizzard in North Dakota, January 4 to 5, 199710 injured · $6.5 million · 26 events
• Tornado in Kentucky, January 4, 19971 death · 2 injured · $50,000 · F1 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 4, 19971 death · $30,000 · 95 kt wind · 1 event
• Blizzard in Nebraska, January 4, 19971 death · 9 events
• Cold in Illinois, January 4, 19971 death · 1 event
• Blizzard in South Dakota, January 4 to 5, 19975 injured · $180,000 · 24 events
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 4, 19972 injured · $500,000 · 50 kt wind · 1 event
• Blizzard in Minnesota, January 4 to 5, 1997$130,000 · 8 events
• Blizzard in North Dakota, January 4 to 22, 199735 events
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 4, 1997$25,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 4, 19971 injured · $16,000 · 50 kt wind · 1 event
• Blizzard in South Dakota, January 4 to 5, 199715 events

Every storm in Hawaii in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Hawaii, January 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: 5626638.