Flood — Adams, Washington

2017-02-16 to 2017-02-22 · near Servia, Adams, Washington

Event narrative

A section of the Lind-Warden Road was washed out producing a gaping 30 foot wide and 15 foot deep canyon across the road. A motorist drove into the gap and dropped 15 feet. The car was destroyed but the driver was unharmed.

Wider weather episode

During the afternoon of February 15th and into the morning of February 16th an atmospheric river of moisture produced widespread heavy rain across eastern Washington. The Spokane airport received 1.18 inches of rainfall during this period, Harrington 1.27 inches and 1.55 inches of rain fell at Newport. Runoff from this rain along with low elevation snow melt produced widespread small stream and field flooding with damage to roads due to erosion and numerous road closures around the region due to high water and washouts and minor mud slides and debris flows across roads.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 682214. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.