Flash Flood, Bennett
- When
- July 19, 5:45 PM MST to 10:30 PM MST
- Where
- Bennett County, Martin
- Coordinates
- 43.195, -101.664 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 19, 1997
Slow moving thunderstorms produced three to six inches of rainfall within a two hour period in the Martin area. Water up to 1/2 foot deep covered portions of Highway 18 and Highway 73, especially north and east of Martin.
Where it happened
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS UNR wrote it up.
Slow moving thunderstorms produced three to six inches of rainfall within a two hour period in the Martin area. Water up to 1/2 foot deep covered portions of Highway 18 and Highway 73, especially north and east of Martin. Small streams rose out of their banks, and widespread flooding of wheat fields was reported.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Texas, July 19 to 30, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, July 19, 1997
- Hail in Nebraska, July 19, 1997
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Minnesota, July 19, 1997
- Wildfire in New Jersey, July 19 to 20, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 19, 1997
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 19, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 19, 1997
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Iowa, July 19, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 19, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, July 19, 1997
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 19, 1997
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, July 1997
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5610540.