1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
High water from spring snow melt caused minor flooding along the Naches and Yakima rivers as well as area creeks. River side parks...golf courses and road were closed. Sandbags were used to keep water flowing down streets out of yards. Some basements...farm outbuildings and pasturelands were flooded.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, May 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: 5598020.