Flash Flood, Loudon
- When
- June 12, 11:40 PM EST to June 13, 11:40 PM EST
- Where
- Loudon County, Countywide
- Coordinates
- 35.735, -84.312 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Tennessee, June 12 to 13, 1997
Water 5 feet deep across the road at junction of Old Route 95 and Harrison Road due to stream overflow. Water 5 feet deep across the road at junctions of Monterey Drive and Stockton Road with Highway 72 due to stream overflow.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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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 MRX wrote it up.
Water 5 feet deep across the road at junction of Old Route 95 and Harrison Road due to stream overflow. Water 5 feet deep across the road at junctions of Monterey Drive and Stockton Road with Highway 72 due to stream overflow. High water on Browder Hollow Road, on Mulberry Street in Loudon and at juntion of Hotchkiss Hollow Road and Breazale Road.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:42 UTC.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, June 12 to 13, 1997
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Tornado in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Hail in Iowa, June 12, 1997
- Hail in Wyoming, June 12, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 12, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 12, 1997
- Flooding in Indiana, June 12, 1997
- Hail in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 12, 1997
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, June 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5603784.