Flash Flood, Carter
- When
- May 26, 9:50 PM EST to May 27, 11:45 PM EST
- Where
- Carter County, Countywide
- Coordinates
- 36.293, -82.127 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flooding in Tennessee, May 26 to 27, 1997
In Carter county roads were flooded around Unaka High School on Highway 91. Streets flooded in Elizabethton.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- None recorded
- 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 MRX wrote it up.
In Carter county roads were flooded around Unaka High School on Highway 91. Streets flooded in Elizabethton. In Sullivan county, Bloomingdale Road blocked by high water. 8 to 10 inches of water on the road in north part of Kingsport.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:48 UTC.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Sullivan
- When
- May 26, 10:45 PM EST to May 27, 11:45 PM EST
- Where
- Sullivan County, Countywide
- Coordinates
- 36.513, -82.304 (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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 26, 1997
- Flash Flood in Missouri, May 26, 1997
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Arkansas, May 26 to 27, 1997
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 26 to 27, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 26, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, May 26, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 26, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Tennessee, May 26, 1997
- Flash Flood and Flood in Missouri, May 26, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 26, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 26, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 26, 1997
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, May 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: 5592146, 5592147.