Flash Flood, Cocke
- When
- July 17, 12:00 AM EST to 2:00 AM EST
- Where
- Cocke County, Cosby
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 35.925, -83.121 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Tennessee, July 17, 1999
Flooding on Cosby Creek forced the evacuation of approximately 20 campers from Cripple Creek Campground off Bogard Road. Water was receding around 2 hours later.
Where it happened
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- Floods
- Wind
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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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 MRX wrote it up.
Flooding on Cosby Creek forced the evacuation of approximately 20 campers from Cripple Creek Campground off Bogard Road. Water was receding around 2 hours later. The campers were then able to return to their campsites.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 37 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:57 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
- Lightning Strike in Montana, July 17, 1999
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 17, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 17, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 17, 1999
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 17, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 17, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Colorado, July 17 to 18, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Alaska, July 17 to 21, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Washington, July 17, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 17, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 17, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Kansas, July 17, 1999
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, 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: 5702232.