Flash Flood, Loudon
- When
- April 17, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Loudon County, Lenoir City
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.735, -84.312 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Tennessee, April 17, 1998
The News-Herald newspaper office in Lenoir City had 44 inches deep in the basement, destroying several computers, company records and turned a refrigerator on its side. Radio station WLIL was almost swept off its foundation by waters rising from adjacent Town Creek.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $250,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MRX wrote it up.
The News-Herald newspaper office in Lenoir City had 44 inches deep in the basement, destroying several computers, company records and turned a refrigerator on its side. Radio station WLIL was almost swept off its foundation by waters rising from adjacent Town Creek. A number of families in the Highland Park area were evacuated when homes in low-lying areas were flooded by runoff. Numerous complaints of residential flooding and vehicles stalled on Highway 11 north of Lenoir City.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, April 17, 1998
- Tornado in Alabama, April 17, 1998
- Flooding in Kentucky, April 17 to 21, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in South Carolina, April 17, 1998
- Flooding in Kentucky, April 17 to 24, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Mississippi, April 17 to 18, 1998
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 17, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, April 17, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 17, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 17, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 17, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 17, 1998
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, April 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: 5642846.