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Flash FloodAdair, Oklahoma

June 30, 1999 · NOAA Storm Events record

Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
$5K
Area
Adair

Event narrative (NOAA)

A 22-year old man drowned while attempting to cross a marked low-water bridge over Evansville Creek on OK Hwy 100 east of Stilwell. His compact pickup truck was swept off the road into the fast-moving stream, which had been flooded by up to 4 inches of rain earlier that morning upstream in Crawford and Washington Counties in Arkansas. The man's passenger managed to swim to safety, but the driver was carried downstream where his body was found several days later.

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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.

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