Flash Flood, Windham
- When
- June 17, 2:54 PM EST to 4:05 PM EST
- Where
- Windham County, Hampton
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 41.827, -71.977 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Connecticut, June 17, 2001
Torrential rainfall associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison caused a private dam in Hampton to fail, which closed a portion of Route 97. 20 inches in Pomfret.
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
- 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 BOX wrote it up.
Torrential rainfall associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison caused a private dam in Hampton to fail, which closed a portion of Route 97. Rainfall totals of 3 to 6 inches were common in Windham County, with as much as 7.20 inches in Pomfret.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 2:45 PM EST, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:45 PM EST, 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 345 PM EDT SUN JUN 17 2001 LOW CENTER IS MOVING EAST OF LONG ISLAND...AND ACCELERATING EAST. CLEARING WILL MOVE INTO THE CT RVR VLY ABT 10 OR 11 PM AND INTO THE EASTERN PART OF MA AFTER 2 OR 3 AM. THE LAST AREA TO CLEAR WILL BE THE OUTER CAPE AND NANTUCKET. WINDS ARE SHIFTING TO THE N AND NW WITH DRIER AIR FILTERING IN FROM THE WEST. WARM BUT DRIER AIR FOR MONDAY THEN WARM HUMID AIR RETURNS TUE. DOWNPOURS IN EASTERN AREAS WITH THE SCTD TSTMS HAVE PRODUCED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN ABOUT AN HOUR. THIS IS PRODUCING STREET FLOODING IN LOCALIZED AREAS. TSTMS AT 4 PM CONFINED TO ABOUT A GON TO PVD TO PSM LINEM. MOVING E WHILE CELLS ARE MOVING NE. .BOX...SCA.
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:52 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
- Heat in Illinois, June 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Massachusetts, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 17, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, June 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Connecticut, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Tornado in Maine, June 17, 2001
More
Every storm in Connecticut in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Connecticut, June 2001
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: 5250303.