Event narrative (NOAA)
Several roads across the county were closed due to flooding. A house experienced flooding on Tommy Dodson Highway. In excess of a foot of water was over roads and in houses in and near Sulpher. Six houses in this area had water up to the doors and windows with one of these houses having water to middle of its doors. A boat was also used to rescue an elderly woman from her house in this area.||Newspapers reported that 75 roads received damage, along with 20 of those roads being destroyed. In addition to this, 70 homes were damaged. Extent of damage to individual homes was unknown. Some vehicles were also damaged, including a car that was nearly submerged when water covered the roadway on State Highway 293 near Ramsey's Market. A few swift water rescues were also preformed across the county.
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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.