Last updated 9:00 PM EST, May 25, 2006 by ERG
1999 Global Register of Major Flood Events - Scroll Down and Look For Links to Maps In The Country Column
DFO # Country Detailed
Locations		 Rivers Began Ended  Duration (days)  Dead  Displaced   Damage (USD)  Main cause Secoary cause Recurrence Interval (anecdotal)   Severity Class*   Hectares flooded  Hayden Code  Affected Region ( sq km)    Flood Magnitude**  MODIS flood inuation limit
file names***		 Notes and Comments
                                       
101 Philippines Mindanao northern coast - Medina, Lugait, Talisayan   25-Dec-99 28-Dec-99 4 8 2,000   Heavy rain     1   Tpz  32,000               2.5    
100 England, Wales Kent, Sussex; Southwestern counties of Cornwall and Devon Ouse, Cuckmere, Wye, Dee, Severn 25-Dec-99 27-Dec-99 3 2 200   Heavy rain Tidal surge   1   Cp  23,630               1.7    
99 South Africa KwaZulu Natal Province - Durban, Mariannhill   21-Dec-99 23-Dec-99 3 23 2,000  $           6,300,000 Heavy rain   4 1   Tso  183,000               4.7   Flooding and landslides.  South Africa's worst floods since Christmas Day, 1995.  Shanty towns washed away.
98 Italy Campania region - Cervinara, Avellino province, San Martino Valle Caudina, Tivoli, Marche region, Umbria region Aniene, Nera 15-Dec-99 16-Dec-99 2 5 300   Heavy rain     1   TsuCs  30,480               1.2   Flooding and landslides.
97 Venezuela, Columbia Venezuela: Caracas, La Guaira, northern coastal region, Avila mountain range, state of Vargas, Zulia, Falcon, Yaracuy, Nueva Esparta, Carabobo, Miranda
Colombia: Northwestern State of Antioquia		   15-Dec-99 20-Dec-99 6 20,006 400,000  $    2,000,000,000 Brief torrential rain   100 3 35,000 Tpo  328,200             30.8   No suitable AVHRR data located.  Venezuela: 20,000 fatalities, 6 in Columbia.  Flooding and landslides.  35,000 hectares of farmland flooded.  Venezuela's worst natural disaster this century.
96 Colombia      15-Sep-99 15-Dec-99 92 93  771,000   Heavy rain     1   Tpz  199,850             20.2   Flooding and mudslides.
95 Thailand  Southern coastal provinces - Chumpon, Songkhla, Naratiwat, Pattani, Yala    4-Dec-99 7-Dec-99 4 5      Monsoonal rain     1   Tpz   157,200               5.5   Flash Flood.
94 Somalia  Central and Southern Somalia - Sablaleh Shabelle 1-Dec-99 6-Dec-99 6       Heavy rain     1 3,000 Tpz  422,100             11.6   No suitable AVHRR data located.  UN food convoy of 120 trucks has been stuck in Muddul Brava for 12 days due to the floods. 
93 Vietnam Central coastline provinces: Thua Thien Hue, Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen, Binh Dinh, Quang Ngai, Quang Nam, Danang, Khanh Hoa Thu Hong 2-Dec-99 10-Dec-99 9 120 1,000,000  $         50,000,000 Heavy rain   40 2 16,296 Tpz   74,800             12.0   No suitable AVHRR data located.  Heavy rains from Dec 1-6 have dumped over six feet of water on some areas.  40,270 acres of rice crop destroyed.
92 Russia  St. Petersburg Neva 29-Nov-99 2-Dec-99 4 2    $             555,000 Heavy rain   13 1 9,200 CSs**   27,470               2.3   No suitable AVHRR data located.  Worst flooding in St. Petersburg in 13 years.  Neva River rose 2.66 meters overnight on Nov 29, flooding the center of the city. Levels began rising again on Dec 1.
91 USA Oregon Coast - Tillamook, Lincoln counties Siletz, Salmon 26-Nov-99 28-Nov-99 3 0 100  $             300,000 Heavy rain   78 2   Cp  18,280               3.0   No suitable AVHRR data located  First major storm to hit the Pacific Northwest this fall.  Siletz River flooded to its second-highest recorded level - crested at 28.5 feet early Nov 26; previous record of 31.6 feet in 1921.
90 Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Republic DRCongo (DRC) - Kinshasa, Bandundu
Congo Republic - Brazzaville, Yoro, Mpila, Kangabanzi		   29-Nov-99 31-Dec-99 33 2 75,000  $         30,000,000 Brief torrential rain   100 3   Tpo  738,800             90.2   No suitable AVHRR data located.  Flooding of tributaries in the northern and southern Congo basin.  Flood of the century on the Congo River.  Worst flooding in Kinshasa in 38 years. Congo River not expected to recede until January. Level of Congo River on Dec 2: 5.44m - Record level from 1961: 5.20m.
89 France Southwest Regions - Aude, Pyrennees-Orientales, Tarn, Herault; Towns - Toulouse, Narbonne, Nevian, La Bastide-Rouairoux, Davejan   12-Nov-99 15-Nov-99 4 27 3,000   Brief torrential rain   50 2   TsuCs  91,890               8.4   Flooding and landslides.
88 India States - Orissa (Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Khurda, Puri, Cuttack), Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal. Towns: Bhubaneswar, Baleshwar, Cuttack, Paradwip, Bhadrak   29-Oct-99 12-Nov-99 15 9,803 10,000,000  $    2,300,000,000 Tropical cyclone   100 3 1,711,000 Tszo  191,900             35.6   No suitable AVHRR data located.  Cyclone struck with tidal waves and heavy rains causing flooding.  Cyclone estimated to have destroyed over 1,500 villages. The districts of Kendrapara, Jagatsingpur, and Puri suffered saltwater inundation from a 5-meter tide that penetrated 26 km inland.
87 Ethiopia Southeastern Ogaden region Wabe Shebelle 30-Oct-99 2-Nov-99 4 34 79,000   Brief torrential rain     1 4,046 Tpz 197,600               6.2   No suitable AVHRR data located.  Ten days of pounding rains burst the banks of the Wabe Shebelle River, inundating 50 communities between the cities of Mustahil and Kelafo, close to the Somali border.
86 Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia - Tropical Storm Eve Vietnam: central coastal areas: Thua Thien Hue, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Quang Ngai, Da Nang, Qaung Nam, Sing Dinh provinces
Thailand: Provinces - Prachuap Khiri Khan, Phetchaburi, Ratchaburi, Kanchanaburi, Lop Buri, Phichit, Nakhon Sawan, Satun, Phuket
Southern Cambodia: Provinces - Takeo, Kandal, Kampong Speu, Phnom Penh Municipality, Pursat; Phnom Penh district of Dang Kor
Malaysia: Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perak		 Perfume, Chao Phya 25-Oct-99 9-Nov-99 16 632 1,114,000  $       265,000,000 Tropical cyclone Heavy rain 100 3 84,767 Tpz  232,600             40.1   No suitable AVHRR or Landsat7 data located.  Vietnam: $265,000,000 damage, 622 fatalities.  Tropical depression in the Gulf of Thailand and Tropical Storm Eve. Vietnam: 185,000 acres of paddy fields flooded.  Cambodia: 9,900 hectares flooded.
Vietnam's worst ever infrastructure damage.  Worst floods in a century in Vietnam.  Worst flooding in 8 years in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
85 South Africa Eastern KwaZulu-Natal Province - Durban area    26-Oct-99 28-Oct-99 3 4 300   Brief torrential rain   10 1   Tsu  93,380               3.4   No suitable AVHRR data located.  Torrential downpours over KwaZulu-Natal. Worst flooding of the decade.
84 Nigeria Imo State - Oguta, Rivers State, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Ahoada-East, Ahoada-West and Abua/Odual local government areas Niger, Orashi, Sombreiro 26-Oct-99 8-Nov-99 14 50     Heavy rain   30 2   Tpz  251,300             26.5   No suitable AVHRR or Landsat7 data located.  Flood wave passage from heavy rains in the north.  Oguta: worst in the history of the area.  Rivers State: worst in thirty years.
83 Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, St. Criox, Jamaica, St. Maarten, Anguilla - Hurricane Jose Dominican Republic: northern Santiago
Puerto Rico
St. Croix; Jamaica; St. Maarten; Anguilla		 Espiritu Santo 22-Oct-99 26-Oct-99 5 4     Tropical cyclone     1   Tso   55,650               3.8    
82 Mexico States - Tabasco, Jalisco, Michoacan, Puebla, Oaxaca, Hidalgo, Chiapas, Veracruz Grijalva, Carrizal, Samaria, Usumacinta, Mezcalpa 12-Oct-99 29-Oct-99 18 425 300,000   Brief torrential rain   40 2   Tso  60,540             14.2   Flooding and landslides.  Weeks of torrential rain forced authorities to open a floodgate on the Penitas dam in Chiapas - rising levels on the Mezcalapa, Samaria and Carrizal rivers downstream in Tabasco. In the Tabasco state capital, Villahermosa, 75 percent of homes flooded.
81 Nigeria, Ghana, Togo Nigeria: States - Niger, Sokoto, Kwara, Adamawa, Borno
Ghana: Northern, Upper East, Upper West regions. Districts - East Gonja, West Gonja, Nanumba, West Mamprusi, Bole
Togo: Regions - Savanes, Kara, Plateaux, Maritime		 Niger, Kaduna, Benue 15-Sep-99 11-Oct-99 27 85 396,748  $         21,000,000 Heavy rain Dam/Levy, break or release 30 2 9,010,000 Tpz  862,000             61.2   Damage in Ghana: $21,000,000.  Unusually heavy seasonal rains in September; hydroelectric dams opened their flood gates in Nigeria.  Nigeria: 100,000 hectares flooded.  Ghana: 116,000 acres farmlands destroyed.  Togo: 1,000 hectares of arable land inundated.  Flooding in Ghana started in September after heavy rains and the opening of the flood spillways of two dams in Burkina Faso.  Worst flooding in 30 years in northern Nigeria and Ghana.
80 India, Bangladesh  India - West Bengal Province: 15 districts, Calcutta, Burdwan, Birbhum
Bangldesh - Rajshahi, Chapainwabganj		 Padma, Mahananda 24-Sep-99 29-Sep-99 6 45    $       235,000,000 Brief torrential rain Monsoonal rain   1   Tszo  169,000               7.4   Padma and Mahananda 69 cm above danger levels.
79 Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia Southeastern Mexico: Tabasco, Veracruz, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Jalisco, Michoacan, Puebla, Hidalgo
El Salvador: Provinces - La Libertad, Ahuachapan, Usulutan, San Vicente
Northern Honduras: Tegucigalpa, Santa Rosa de Copan; Departments of Santa Barbara, Octotepeque, Francisco Morazan
Guatemala: San Sebastian
Costa Rica: Guanacaste Province
Nicaragua
Panama
Colombia: Southern Florencia		 Grijalva, Usumacinta, Carrizal, Lempa, Alubaren, Ulua, Choluteca, Sulaco, Humuya, Ixpats, Samala, Platanitos, Botas 12-Sep-99 12-Oct-99 31 160 268,200  $           3,000,000 Tropical cyclone   40 2 66,648 Tso 1,159,000             73.9   Tropical disturbance on the Atlantic coast caused a week of torrential rains in Central America in the wake of Hurricane Floyd.  Worst flooding in Mexico in 40 yrs.  El Cajon hydroelectric dam overflowed in Honduras.
78 China -Typhoon York  Hong Kong, rural New Territories
Guangdong Province - Guangzhou city
Fujian Province - Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Putian, Fuzhou		 Pearl 15-Sep-99 18-Sep-99 4 8 10,000  $         24,000,000 Tropical cyclone     1   Tszo  177,700               5.8    
77 Japan  Osaka   15-Sep-99 16-Sep-99 2 4 14,521   Heavy rain     1   TsoCp  2,620               0.4   Flooding and landslides.  Osaka received nearly 20 inches of rain in 24 hours; thousands sought higher ground in nearby Kobe because of river flooding.
76 USA - Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane Irene Eastern North Carolina: Tarboro, Greenville, Edgecombe, Pitt, Duplin, Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Jones, Wayne, Lenoir Counties
New Jersey: Bound Brook, Manville, Somerset County, Rockland, Bergen, Passaic counties
Southeast Virginia: Franklin, Southampton County
South Carolina: Horry County, Conway
Southeast Pennslyvania		 Tar, Cape Fear, Neuse, Waccamaw, Roanoke, Lumber, Passaic, Blackwater, Nottoway, Meherrin, Pee Dee, Raritan 14-Sep-99 10-Oct-99 27 68 35,000  $    3,000,000,000 Tropical cyclone   100 3   TsoCp  175,200             41.4   30,000 Displaced in North Carolina, 5,000 in New Jersey.  Heavy rains from hurricane Floyd followed by Hurricane Irene.
Tar River crested at record 24 feet above flood stage.  The Waccamaw, Cape Fear, Roanoke and Lumber rivers also rose to record levels. Franklin in Southampton County, Virginia - "worst flooding in the history of the city," Blackwater River established a new record, 14 feet above flood stage, at Franklin.  Nottoway and Meherrin rivers at greater than 25-yr and 10-yr floods respectively.  Waccamaw River crested at six feet above flood level (13.05 feet) on Sep 28; surpassing 1928 record level
75 Niger     7-Sep-99 14-Sep-99 8 7 22,000   Brief torrential rain     1 21,600 Tpz   212,070               9.6   No suitable AVHRR data located. Unusually heavy rainfall.
74 Philippines Luzon - Manila, Rizal   10-Sep-99 14-Sep-99 5 1 4,500   Brief torrential rain     1   Tpz  22,630               2.4   No suitable AVHRR data located.  Manilla submerged by up to 5 ft of water.
73 El Salvador  Lower Lempa region - Santa Marta; central province of San Vicente Rio Lempa, Paz 10-Sep-99 13-Sep-99 4 4 5,000   Heavy rain     1   Tso  19,150               1.9   No suitable AVHRR data located.  
72 Ghana  Districts - Builsa, Kassena Nankana   3-Sep-99 13-Sep-99 11 1 9,000   Heavy rain Dam/Levy, break or release   1 214 Tpz  126,700               8.5   No suitable AVHRR data located.  Flooding exacerbated by the opening of spillway outlets to relieve pressure in Burkina Faso's Bagre dam.  Three dams burst their banks, submerging several villages.
71 Ethiopia Northeastern lowlands Awash 23-Aug-99 7-Sep-99 16   6,755  $           2,700,000 Heavy rain     1