Flash Flood in Phelps County, Missouri

Flash Flood December 26, 2015 · Phelps County, Missouri

$2.5M

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Highway J was closed due to high water at the Spring Creek Arm of the Big Piney River. Numerous roads and bridges were damaged. Approximately 8 homes were destroyed and 22 homed suffered moderate damaged from flood water. This storm report will contain the damage estimates for the entire county for this event.

The wider storm

A slow moving and strong weather system caused several rounds of very heavy and record breaking rainfall to occur across the Missouri Ozarks which led to historic and deadly flooding.

Began near Flat (37.7600, -92.0200).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 605939. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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