Flash Flood, Tanana Valley
- When
- July 11, 2:00 AM AST to July 12, 2:00 AM AST
- Where
- Tanana Valley County, Big Delta
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Flash Flood in Alaska, July 11 to 12, 2000
Heavy Rains in the central Alaska Range during the night of July 10 caused Onemile creek to flood, clogging the bridge on the Richardson highway with rock, mud, and debris, and buried nearly a quarter-mile of roadway under two feet of muck. Onemile Creek is approximately 40 miles south of Big Delta (Delta Junction).
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 AFG wrote it up.
Heavy Rains in the central Alaska Range during the night of July 10 caused Onemile creek to flood, clogging the bridge on the Richardson highway with rock, mud, and debris, and buried nearly a quarter-mile of roadway under two feet of muck. Onemile Creek is approximately 40 miles south of Big Delta (Delta Junction).
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.
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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: 5164469.