Flash Flood in Louisiana, April 5, 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 Shreveport radar (KSHV), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:13 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.

• Blizzard in North Dakota, April 5 to 6, 19971 death · $102 million · 17 events
• Blizzard in South Dakota, April 5 to 6, 1997$50 million · 19 events
• Blizzard in Minnesota, April 5 to 6, 19973 injured · $25 million · 6 events
• Flood in North Dakota, April 5 to 8, 1997$50 million · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Arkansas, April 5, 19971 death · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Louisiana, April 5, 19971 death · 1 event
• Flood in Minnesota, April 5 to 8, 1997$20 million · 1 event
• Flood in Minnesota, April 5 to 9, 1997$20 million · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, April 5, 1997$400,000 · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Louisiana, April 5, 1997$320,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Louisiana, April 5, 1997$253,000 · 1 event
• Blizzard in Nebraska, April 5 to 6, 1997$100,000 · 12 events

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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: 5591940.