Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 19, 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.

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:28 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.

• Lightning Strike in Connecticut, June 19, 19971 death · 1 event
• Hail in South Dakota, June 19, 1997$110,000 · 1.25 in hail · 1 event
• Hail in Nebraska, June 19, 1997$95,000 · 0.75 in hail · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 19 to 20, 1997$53,000 · 2 in hail · 8 events
• Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997$56,000 · 61 kt wind · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997$40,000 · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Nebraska, June 19, 1997$28,000 · 1 event
• Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 19, 1997$18,000 · F0 · 6 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 19 to 20, 19972.75 in hail · 17 events
• Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997$20,000 · 74 kt wind · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, June 19, 1997$2,000 · 1 in hail · 14 events
• Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997$16,000 · 62 kt wind · 1 event

Every storm in Kentucky in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, June 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: 5605822.