Flash Flood, Woodbury
- When
- June 23, 9:00 PM CST to June 24, 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Woodbury County, Salix
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 42.390, -96.045 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Iowa, June 23 to 24, 1998
Thunderstorm rainfall of 3 to 7 inches caused flash flooding in southern Woodbury County. Several streams flooded, including Wolf Creek which closed a highway near Holly Springs.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Thunderstorm rainfall of 3 to 7 inches caused flash flooding in southern Woodbury County. Several streams flooded, including Wolf Creek which closed a highway near Holly Springs. Many fields and other low areas were flooded including some roads.
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heat in Missouri, June 23 to 30, 1998
- Heat in Illinois, June 23 to 30, 1998
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 23, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, June 23, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 23 to 24, 1998
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 23, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 23, 1998
- Tornado in Iowa, June 23, 1998
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 23, 1998
- Tornado in Alabama, June 23, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 23, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 23, 1998
More
Every storm in Iowa in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, June 1998
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: 5662008.