Flash Flood in Georgia, July 18, 1998

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$5,000

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.

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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.

• Heat in Missouri, July 18 to 22, 1998137 injured · 7 events
• Heat in Illinois, July 18 to 22, 199819 injured · 2 events
• Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, July 18, 1998$325,000 · F1 · 24 events
• Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 18, 1998$240,000 · 78 kt wind · 2 events
• Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 18, 1998$200,000 · 61 kt wind · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 18, 1998$200,000 · 65 kt wind · 1 event
• Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 18 to 19, 1998$175,000 · 3 events
• Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 18, 1998$100,000 · 52 kt wind · 1 event
• Heat in Missouri, July 18 to 21, 19983 injured · 11 events
• Flood in Florida, July 18, 1998$50,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 18, 1998$50,000 · 57 kt wind · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 18, 1998$50,000 · 61 kt wind · 1 event

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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: 5662733.