Flash Flood in North Carolina, January 27, 1998

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.

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:57 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.

• Heavy Snow in West Virginia, January 27 to 28, 19982 deaths · 1 injured · $13 million · 8 events
• Winter Storm in Tennessee, January 27 to 28, 19981 death · $1.0 million · 15 events
• Heavy Snow in Virginia, January 27 to 28, 19981 death · $100,000 · 10 events
• Heavy Snow in West Virginia, January 27 to 28, 19981 death · 1 injured · $90,000 · 4 events
• Coastal Flood in Virginia, January 27 to 28, 1998$1.5 million · 10 events
• Heavy Snow in Virginia, January 27 to 28, 1998$1.5 million · 2 events
• Coastal Flood in Maryland, January 27 to 28, 1998$1.5 million · 2 events
• Winter Storm in North Carolina, January 27 to 29, 1998$600,000 · 17 events
• Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 27 to 28, 1998$450,000 · 3 events
• Heavy Rain in Virginia, January 27 to 28, 199852 events
• Winter Storm and Winter Weather in West Virginia, January 27 to 28, 1998$25,000 · 8 events
• Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Virginia, January 27 to 28, 1998$22,000 · 8 events

Every storm in North Carolina in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, January 1998

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5631127.