Flash Flood in Nevada, August 4 to 5, 1997

Name: Flash Flood in Nevada, August 4 to 5, 1997
Start: 1997-08-04T17:30
End: 1997-08-05T00:40
Location: Nevada

August 4 to 5, 1997 · NWS VEF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $100,000
Crop damage: $10,000
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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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Lincoln

When: August 4, 5:30 PM PST to August 5, 12:40 AM PST
Where: Lincoln County, 24 mi NW of Ursine
Property damage: $100,000
Crop damage: $10,000
Coordinates: 37.643, -114.877 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy rain showers fell on a 9000 acre burn area in northeast Lincoln County and resulted in a flash flood which began in Camp Valley Creek and ended in Eagle Valley Canyon. Flood waters reached as high as 20 feet in places and swept through a ranch damaging property, machinery and hay stacks. The waters also washed out several sections of the road in Eagle Valley Canyon before they were contained in the Eagle Valley Reservoir three miles north of Ursine.

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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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: 5619534.