Flash Flood, Mower
- When
- July 18, 6:30 PM CST to 11:30 PM CST
- Where
- Mower County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $80,000
- Crop damage
- $60,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 43.672, -92.752 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Minnesota, July 18, 1999
3 inches of rain fell on already saturated soil, causing flash flooding. In the city of Austin, parks were underwater and several streets closed when the Cedar River and Dobbins Creek overflowed their banks.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $80,000
- Crop damage
- $60,000
- 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 ARX wrote it up.
3 inches of rain fell on already saturated soil, causing flash flooding. In the city of Austin, parks were underwater and several streets closed when the Cedar River and Dobbins Creek overflowed their banks. Flood waters forced the closure of Interstate 90 near Austin, which happened only twice previously when two 100 year floods occurred within 10 days of each other in 1978. Flood waters also caused damage to crops and homes in the Le Roy and Racine areas.
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:31 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, July 18 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Missouri, July 18 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Illinois, July 18 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Illinois, July 18 to 31, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, July 18 to 19, 1999
- Heat in Kentucky, July 18 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Missouri, July 18 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Kansas, July 18 to 31, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 18, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 18 to 19, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 18, 1999
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 18, 1999
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, July 1999
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: 5707490.