Flash Flood, Hartford
- When
- June 30, 5:10 PM EST to 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Hartford County, Southington
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
- Coordinates
- 41.819, -72.572 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flooding in Connecticut, June 30, 1998
An area of heavy showers and thunderstorms associated with a slow moving warm front brought 2 to 4 inches of rainfall, resulting in urban street, basement, small stream, and river flooding in Hartford County. 24 feet at 8:39 PM, and continued in flood through midnight.
Where it happened
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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 BOX wrote it up.
An area of heavy showers and thunderstorms associated with a slow moving warm front brought 2 to 4 inches of rainfall, resulting in urban street, basement, small stream, and river flooding in Hartford County. The Quinnipiac River , a small stream, reached flood stage of 3.5 feet in Southington at 6:10 PM on June 30th, crested at 4.24 feet at 8:39 PM, and continued in flood through midnight. The South Branch of the Park River, a small stream in Hartford, reached flood stage of 9 feet at 9:45 pm on June 30th, crested at 9.85 feet at 10:30 PM, and continued in flood through midnight. Also at 9:45 PM, in West Hartford, the Trout Brook went over its banks flooding nearby areas. Urban street flooding was reported with water four feet deep on Pen Drive and one foot deep in some other areas.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Hartford
- When
- June 30, 8:45 PM EST to 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Hartford County, Hartford
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
- Coordinates
- 41.819, -72.572 (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.
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The same day elsewhere
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More
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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: 5660903, 5660904.