Flash Flood, Lee
- When
- July 11, 2:00 PM CST to 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County, Lincoln
- Property damage
- $6,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.311, -96.966 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, July 11, 1999
Brief heavy rain caused short-lived flooding near Lincoln, with roads quickly becoming passable again. One resident of Lincoln reported that the water accumulation was sufficient to dislodge and float her underground tornado shelter.
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
- $6,000
- 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 EWX wrote it up.
Brief heavy rain caused short-lived flooding near Lincoln, with roads quickly becoming passable again. One resident of Lincoln reported that the water accumulation was sufficient to dislodge and float her underground tornado shelter. She looked in her back yard to see the shelter spinning in its former hole.
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:00 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
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More
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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: 5704944.