Flash Flood in New Mexico, August 12, 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.

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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.

• Hail and Damaging Winds in Utah, August 12, 19971 death · 2 injured · $10,000 · 61 kt wind · 5 events
• Rip Current in Florida, August 12, 19971 death · 1 event
• Heavy Rain in Idaho, August 12, 19971 death · 1 event
• Flood and Hail in Idaho, August 12, 1997$1.0 million · 1.75 in hail · 2 events
• Heavy Rain in Idaho, August 12, 1997$100,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Idaho, August 12, 1997$70,000 · 51 kt wind · 1 event
• High Wind in New Mexico, August 12, 1997$30,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Alaska, August 12 to 13, 1997$20,000 · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, August 12 to 16, 1997$20,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Ohio, August 12, 19971 injured · $4,000 · 1 event
• Hail and Heavy Rain in Idaho, August 12, 19971.75 in hail · 8 events
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Idaho, August 12, 19971 in hail · 4 events

Every storm in New Mexico in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, August 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: 5619268.