Flash Flood, Upper Yukon Valley
- When
- July 11, 12:00 AM AST to July 13, 11:00 AM AST
- Where
- Upper Yukon Valley County, Chicken
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Flash Flood in Alaska, July 11 to 13, 2000
Heavy Rain over the Fortymile country of the Southeastern Upper Yukon Valley produced high water on creeks flowing under the Taylor highway, which links the city to Tok to the Village of Eagle. Water over the road occurred at places between 35 to mile 49, and at mile 76 Wade Creek overflowed creating a washout of the road occurred, with the State Departement of Transportation able to keep only…
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 Rain over the Fortymile country of the Southeastern Upper Yukon Valley produced high water on creeks flowing under the Taylor highway, which links the city to Tok to the Village of Eagle. Water over the road occurred at places between 35 to mile 49, and at mile 76 Wade Creek overflowed creating a washout of the road occurred, with the State Departement of Transportation able to keep only one lane open at this spot .
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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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: 5164470.