Flash Flood, Bayfield
- When
- July 5, 8:20 AM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bayfield County, North Portion
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 46.635, -91.181 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Wisconsin, July 5, 1999
Highways and bridges near Port Wing, Bayfield, and Washburn were flooded by heavy rain from slow-moving thunderstorms.
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
- $500,000
- 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 DLH wrote it up.
Highways and bridges near Port Wing, Bayfield, and Washburn were flooded by heavy rain from slow-moving thunderstorms.
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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Arizona, July 5 to 29, 1999
- Heat and Hail in North Carolina, July 5 to 25, 1999
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 5, 1999
- Heat in Massachusetts, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Maine, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Arizona, July 5, 1999
- Hail in Kansas, July 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 5, 1999
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Guam, July 5 to 6, 1999
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, 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: 5711632.