Flood in Johnson County, Illinois

Flood July 7, 2016 · Johnson County, Illinois

Death

Injury

$15K

Damage as recorded

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

Just northwest of Vienna, an elderly lady drowned after her vehicle was driven into a flooded creek. The 75-year-old woman died after her family drove off a section of the road that was covered in floodwater from Dutchman Creek. The vehicle was carried downstream. The other three individuals in the vehicle were rescued. One person sustained minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital.

The wider storm

A developing line of thunderstorms moved east-southeast across southern Illinois during the late morning and early afternoon hours. The storms moved through a moist and unstable environment ahead of a 500 mb shortwave trough over the mid and upper Mississippi Valley. A west to southwest flow of very moist air at 850 mb averaged from 20 to 30 knots. A few isolated storms produced damaging wind.

Began near Vienna (37.4200, -88.9000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 647177. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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