Event narrative (NOAA)
Multiple roads were closed due to flooding, including State Route 1 and 784 due to flooding along Lost Creek and Three Prong Branch. A vehicle drove into the high water along State Route 1, but the driver was able to self rescue and was not injured. Route 503 was closed due to high water on Culp Creek. Tygarts Creek also flooded upstream of Load, closing sections of State Routes 2 and 7. A 51 year old man tried to drive across the flooded section of Route 2, near the Wagener's General Store, on the morning of the 17th. Witnesses saw him get out of his truck as it was being swept away, but he was unable to swim to safety and drowned.
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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.