Flash Flood in Illinois, July 14, 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 Paducah radar (KPAH), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:15 UTC.

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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.

• Heat in Illinois, July 14 to 18, 19975 deaths · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 14, 1997$159,000 · 61 kt wind · 29 events
• Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, July 14, 1997$114,000 · 50 kt wind · 8 events
• Tornado in Texas, July 14, 19973 injured · $50,000 · F0 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Texas, July 14, 1997$150,000 · 50 kt wind · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 14, 1997$70,000 · 52 kt wind · 1 event
• Flash Flood and Hail in Minnesota, July 14, 1997$57,000 · 1.75 in hail · 2 events
• Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 14, 1997$50,000 · 52 kt wind · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 14, 1997$40,000 · 52 kt wind · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 14, 1997$26,000 · 0.75 in hail · 6 events
• Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 14, 1997$30,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Winds in Texas, July 14, 1997$22,000 · 50 kt wind · 6 events

Every storm in Illinois in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, 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: 5609732.