Flash Flood, Navarro
- When
- January 6, 3:58 AM CST to 6:00 AM CST
- Where
- Navarro County, Corsicana
- Coordinates
- 32.047, -96.472 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Several roads were reported flooded in and around town.
Flash Flooding in Texas, January 6, 1998
4 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 4 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
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:57 UTC.
Event by event
4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Navarro
- When
- January 6, 8:50 AM CST to 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Navarro County, Corsicana
- Coordinates
- 32.047, -96.472 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Several roads across the county were reported flooded.
Flash Flood, Navarro
- When
- January 6, 11:00 AM CST to 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Navarro County, Corsicana
- Coordinates
- 32.047, -96.472 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Numerous roads across the county were reported flooded and closed.
Flash Flood, Navarro
- When
- January 6, 5:37 PM CST to 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Navarro County, Corsicana
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 32.047, -96.472 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Several roads remained flooded and closed across the county while others were washed out by raging flood waters. Flood water damaged 40 homes, 3 churches, 1 school, 6 public buildings and 10 businesses.
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
- Ice Storm in New York, January 6 to 9, 1998
- Ice Storm in Vermont, January 6 to 9, 1998
- Hail in Texas, January 6, 1998
- Hail in Texas, January 6, 1998
- Ice Storm in Vermont, January 6 to 9, 1998
- Flooding in New York, January 6 to 12, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Louisiana, January 6 to 7, 1998
- Hail in Texas, January 6, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, January 6 to 7, 1998
- Winter Weather in New York, January 6 to 9, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Mississippi, January 6 to 7, 1998
- Hail in Texas, January 6, 1998
More
Every storm in Texas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, January 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: 5629867, 5629868, 5629869, 5629955.