Flash Flood in Florida, February 16, 1998

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$10,000

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.

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:01 UTC.

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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.

• Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, February 16, 19984 injured · $3.8 million · F1 · 20 events
• Flooding in Florida, February 16, 1998$810,000 · 6 events
• Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Florida, February 16, 1998$410,000 · F0 · 5 events
• Flood in Florida, February 16 to 25, 1998$400,000 · 1 event
• Flood in Florida, February 16 to 25, 1998$300,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Florida, February 16, 1998$150,000 · F0 · 1 event
• High Wind in Virginia, February 16 to 17, 1998$150,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Florida, February 16, 1998$125,000 · F0 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Florida, February 16, 1998$100,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Florida, February 16, 1998$50,000 · F0 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Florida, February 16, 1998$50,000 · 1 event
• High Wind in North Carolina, February 16, 199852 kt wind · 31 events

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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: 5634922.