Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
$1.0M
Area
Harvey
Event narrative (NOAA)
At approximately 100 AM on 11/01/98, one woman, aged 50, was driving north on old U.S. Highway 81 from Wichita toward Newton when she encountered a barricade postioned across the highway due to water from jesper Creek. She ignored the barricade and drove into the water where her car stalled. At this point she left her car and began wading. Her car was subsequently swept off the highway and found between 1/4 and 1/2 mile downstream with the victim's body found an unspecified distance further.
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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.