Flash Flood, Cape Girardeau
- When
- June 17, 9:00 AM CST to 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cape Girardeau County, Jackson
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 37.384, -89.684 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flooding in Missouri, June 17, 1997
Slow-moving showers and thunderstorms dumped heavy rain over southern Bollinger and Cape Girardeau Counties. The heaviest rain, which radar estimated to be around 3 inches, fell between Zalma and Delta.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
Slow-moving showers and thunderstorms dumped heavy rain over southern Bollinger and Cape Girardeau Counties. The heaviest rain, which radar estimated to be around 3 inches, fell between Zalma and Delta. Several primary and secondary roads were water-covered and impassable. In Cape Girardeau County, flooded roads included County Roads 222 and 231, County Road 214 at Williams Creek, and Highway F.
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:58 UTC.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Bollinger
- When
- June 17, 9:00 AM CST to 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Bollinger County, Marble Hill
- Coordinates
- 37.322, -90.026 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- 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.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Tornado in Indiana, June 17, 1997
- Tornado in Kentucky, June 17, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Idaho, June 17, 1997
- Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, June 17, 1997
- Tornado in Kentucky, June 17, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 17, 1997
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 17, 1997
- Tornado in Tennessee, June 17, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 17, 1997
More
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Sources
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: 5601935, 5601936.