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	5	Tpu	216,400	12.9
70	Malaysia - Typhoon Wendy	Penang Island, Kedah and Perlis states		3-Sep-99	7-Sep-99	5		2,000		Heavy rain	Tropical cyclone		1		Tpz	29,030	2.7
69	China	Zhejiang Province - Lishui prefecture: Wenzhou, Taizhou, 1,028 surrounding villages Guangdong, Jiangxi Provinces also affected		6-Sep-99	7-Sep-99	2	153	720,000	$       277,000,000	Brief torrential rain			1	117,000	Tszo	112,200	2.3		No suitable AVHRR data located CAUSE:Torrential rains
68	Romania, Bulgaria	Romania counties: Constanta, Buzau, Dolj, Bucharest. Northeastern Bulgaria: Dolen Chiflik, Dragoevo, Razgrad, Varna, Medovo, Shumen	Ticha	4-Sep-99	8-Sep-99	5	2	80		Brief torrential rain			1		CpSe*	123,900	5.7		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Thousands of houses and fields were flooded and hundreds of livestock and domestic animals drowned.
67	Mexico - Hurricane Greg	States - Colima, Jalisco, Michoacan, Puebla, Morelos, Chiapas	Los Mezcales	7-Sep-99	8-Sep-99	2	10	1,400		Tropical cyclone			1		Tso	126,000	2.5		No suitable AVHRR data located CAUSE:Hurricane Greg
66	Russia	Primorsky region - Partizansk district, Nakhodka and Partizansk	Partizanskaya	30-Aug-99	2-Sep-99	4	2			Extra-tropical cyclone			1		TsoCpSe*	97,270	4.3		No suitable AVHRR data located.
65	USA	Minnesota - Hibbing		4-Jul-99	5-Jul-99	2	0	0	$         14,300,000	Heavy rain			1		TsuCpCs**	29,340	1.2		No suitable AVHRR data located.  $14,300,000 in damage to public infrastructure.  4.35 inches rain in 3 hours in Hibbing.
64	China - Typhoon Sam	Hong Kong, New Kowloon, and Sham Tseng in New Territories		21-Aug-99	25-Aug-99	5	1	352		Brief torrential rain			1		Tszo	111,200	5.4		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Torrential rain from Typhoon Sam.
63	Venezuela	States: Anzoategui, Delta Amacuro, Portuguesa, Bolivar, Miranda	Orinoco	17-Aug-99	21-Aug-99	5		8,000		Tropical cyclone			1		Tpz	67,740	4.2		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Influenced by tropical storms in Gulf of Mexico.
62	Chad	Provinces: Batha, Biltine, Chari-Baguirmi, Guera, Kanem, Lac, Mayo-Kebbi, Moyen-Chari	Batha, Bhar Azoum	1-Aug-99	23-Aug-99	23		130,000		Brief torrential rain			1	165,124	Tpu	278,800	16.6		No suitable AVHRR data located.  2 weeks of torrential rains.
61	Bangladesh, India	Bangladesh: Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bandarban districts; Chittagong port city, Aziznagar, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Island of Maheshkhali, Chokoria India States: Bihar, Assam, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh	Matamuhri	11-Aug-99	15-Aug-99	5	18	50,000		Heavy rain			1	50,000	Tszo	66,370	4.1		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Flooding and mudslides.  Monsoon persisted through August and early September.  50,000 hectares inundated in Cox's Bazar and Chittagong districts.  Worst flooding in Bihar in more than a decade.
60	China	Hunan Province - Chenzhou city		12-Aug-99	16-Aug-99	5	77	120,000	$       181,000,000	Brief torrential rain			1	300	TsoCp	104,500	5.2		No suitable AVHRR data located.  :3 days of flash flooding after precipitation reaching 295 mm in 24 hours.
59	USA	Nebraska: Omaha, Douglas County, Burt and Dodge counties Western Iowa: Council Bluffs, Mills and Montgomery counties	Nishnabotna, Logan Creek, Papio Creek, Mosquito Creek, Indian Creek	6-Aug-99	8-Aug-99	3	1		$           8,800,000	Heavy rain			1		TsuCpSe*	73,290	3.0		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Nearly a foot of rain fell in parts of Omaha in a 24-hour period Friday and early Saturday.
58	Iran	East Azerbaijan Province - Tabriz city, Northeastern region of Golestan		8-Aug-99	9-Aug-99	2	6			Heavy rain			1		TsuCs	63,180	1.7
57	China	Quinghai Province - Ping'an, Huzhu, Minhe	Yellow, Huangshui	4-Aug-99	7-Aug-99	4	8	24,000	$         20,500,000	Brief torrential rain			1	66,700	CSs*	147,200	5.3		No suitable AVHRR data located.
56	Cambodia	Southern Provinces: Kampot, Kratie, Kompong Cham, Koh Kong, Sihanoukville	Mekong	2-Aug-99	8-Aug-99	7	9	8,000	$           3,000,000	Brief torrential rain			2	12,000	Tpz	92,450	11.8		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Flash flooding.  Worst in decades.
55	Sudan	States/Provinces: Khartoum, River Nile, North Kordufan, White Nile, Northern, Red Sea, Kassala, Gezira; Towns/Cities: Omdurman, Khartoum North, Daroshab	Nile, White Nile, Blue Nile	1-Aug-99	10-Sep-99	41	40	80,000		Heavy rain			1		Tpu	167,100	15.2		2,000 homes destroyed.
54	North Korea, South Korea, Phillipines - Typhoon Olga	South Korea Provinces: Kyonggi-do, Kangwon-do. Towns: Hwachon, Paju, Seoul, Yonchon North Korea: Kaesung area Phillippines: Luzon Provinces - Rizal, Pampanga, Bulacan, Pangasinan. Cities/towns: Manila, Antipolo, Quezon, Dagupan	Han, Pampanga	30-Jul-99	8-Aug-99	10	152	144,000	$       675,000,000	Tropical cyclone		25	2	195,017	N&S Kor: TsoCpSe* Phil: Tpz	45,340	9.8		No suitable AVHRR data located.  S Kor: $657,000,000; Phillippines: $18,000,000.  50 dead in S Korea (24,000 displaced), 42 in N Korea (40,000 displaced), 160 in Philippines (80,000 displaced).  89,000 acres flooded in South Korea.  16,000 hectares submergedin North Korea. 143,000 hectares of crops ruined in the Philippines. Heaviest rainfall in Korea in 25 yrs. La Mesa dam overflowed in North Korea.
53	Vietnam, Thailand	South and central Vietnam Provinces: Binh Thuan, Lam Dong, Dac Lac, Dong Nai. Districts: Daknong and Cat Tien East Thailand Provinces: Chantaburi, Trad, Ubol Ratchathani.		24-Jul-99	5-Aug-99	13	46	52,000	$         19,500,000	Brief torrential rain		47	2	26,162	Tpz	142,580	19.4		Flash Flood.  Vietnam: $19,500,000.  40 dead in Vietnam, 6 in Thailand.  22,000 displaced in Vietnam, 30,000 in Thailand.  Flooding and landslides.  Vietnam: 48,400 acres inundated. Thailand: 16,250 acres damaged. Worst storm in 47 years sank 94 ships and submerged 11,000 houses.
52	USA	North and Central Iowa - Counties: Black Hawk, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Jones, Mitchell, Woodbury and Worth - Towns: Cedar Falls, Kensett, Manly, Marble Rock, Nors Springs, Plymouth, Rockford, Roseville, Waverly	Cedar, Shell Rock, Wapsipinicon, Iowa, Winnebago, Beaver Creek, Floyd Creek, Rock Falls Creek	2-Jul-99	24-Jul-99	23	1	1,500		Brief torrential rain		100	3		TsuCpSe*	56,670	22.4		Worse than Flood of 1993; Manly and Charles City rainfall receipts exceed 100 yr recurrence interval; flood stage in Waverly within 3 inches of top of 100 yr floodplain of Cedar River.
51	Iran	Provinces: Mazandaran, Khorasan, Golestan, Zanjan.  Towns: Neka, Sari, Behshahr and 59 villages	Neka	15-Jul-99	27-Jul-99	13	37	8,000	$           3,000,000	Brief torrential rain		1000	3	6,000	TsuCs	31,880	13.7		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Week of torrential rain after drought.  Flood was the result of an uncompleted dam in Neka.   Destroyed 5,000 hectares of farmland and 1,000 hectares of forest in Mazaaran.
50	China	Ningxia Hui autonomous region - Yanchi County		13-Jul-99	15-Jul-99	3	2		$           3,900,000	Heavy rain			1	6,600	CSs*	35,710	2.1		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Rainfall reached 120 mm in 2 hrs in the early morning of july 13 13,000 head of livestock and poultry died.  Over 6,600 hectares of crops ruined.  310 houses collapsed.
49	Australia	New South Wales - Kendall, Bellingen, Kempsey, Dorigo, Gosford	Orara, Bellinger, Nambucca, Hastings, Manning, Macleay, Patterson, Williams	14-Jul-99	16-Jul-99	3	3	20		Heavy rain			1		Tso	67,710	2.9		No suitable AVHRR data located.
48	Bangladesh, India	Bangladesh Districts: Comilla, Lalmonirhat, Habiganj Jamalpur, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Kustia, Rajshahi, Bogra, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Sunamganj, Chittagong. Cities: Dhaka, Comilla, Chandpur. India States: Bihar, Assam, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Tripura.  Districts: Karbhanga, Khagaria, Darbhanga, Patna.	Brahmaputra, Jamuna, Padma, Meghna, Gomti, Surma, Khowai	11-Jul-99	3-Aug-99	24	356	33,100,003		Monsoonal rain			1	48,000	Tszo	132,360	11.6		Fatalities: Bangladeh: 31; India: 325 Displaced:  Bangladesh: 310,000; India: 3,000,000 Up to 10" of rain overnight in some areas Hectares Flooded: homes and crops of 450,000 in Comilla District submerged.  48,000 Hectares crops submerged in Comilla. Gomti River broke its banks in 2 places and inundated 55 villiages in Comilla (July/19).  On July 13 a tenth of Bangladesh is under water.  July 19-21: monsoonal rains in N Bangladesh flood 10 villages.
47	Yugoslavia	Serbia - Cities: Belgrade, Bresje, Batocina, Smederevska Palanka, Kragujevac, Cacak, Ripanj, Jagodina	Lepenica, Gruza, Topcider, Despotovac	9-Jul-99	12-Jul-99	4	7	5,000		Brief torrential rain	Heavy rain		1		CSs**	31,130	2.4
46	Romania, Hungary	Western Romania Hungary: northeastern county of Heves	Siret, Somes, Riul, Mare	9-Jul-99	16-Jul-99	8	16	3,225	$           7,000,000	Heavy rain			1	80,000	CpSe*	100,800	6.6		Damage: Romania: 4,000,000, Hungary: 3,000,000 Displaced: Hungary: 3,125, Romania: 100 Flooding and landslides 70,000 hectares of farm land flooded in Hungary; 10,000 hectares in Romania.
45	USA	Nevada - Las Vegas		8-Jul-99	9-Jul-99	2	2			Brief torrential rain			1		CpSe*	4,320	0.5		Worst thunderstorm in 15 years.
44	Tajikistan	North and East Tajikistan - Leninabad Region: Ashd and Aini districts.  Faizabad, Gharm, Ghissar, Jirgatal, Kofarnihon, Leninsky, Tavildara, Varzob districts		7-Jul-99	12-Jul-99	6	25	3,003	$           6,154,000	Brief torrential rain			1	6,245	CSs*	87,360	5.3		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Flooding and mudslides.
43	China	Provinces - Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi	Yangtze	23-Jun-99	3-Aug-99	42	725	5,530,000	$    8,000,000,000	Heavy rain			1	11,300,000	Tszo TsoCp	362,100	22.5
42	China	Sichuan Province: Chengdu city, 23 counties	Yangtze	25-Apr-99	29-Jun-99	66	49	830,000	$         24,200,000	Heavy rain			1	67,000	CSs*	123,900	14.7		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Floods caused by four major rainfalls between late April and June 29.
41	USA	Alabama: Albertville, Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery Georgia: Savannah Missouri: Kansas City- Kansas Nebraska Minnesota: St. Louis County Eastern Iowa	Shoal Creek, Village Creek, Talapoosa, Missouri, Crane Creek, Turkey Creek, Nemaha, Big Blue, Weeping Water Creek	28-Jun-99	5-Jul-99	8	4	50	$           4,000,000	Brief torrential rain			1		TsuCpSe* TsoCp	263,000	10.7		Iowa: $4,000,000.  Thunderstorms, tornados.  6 inches of rain over 5 days in Birmingham, AL.  12 inches over 4 days in Kansas City, MO.  Up to 9 inches over north central Iowa July 2-3.
40	Japan	Hiroshima prefecture; Kobe, Nagasaki, Fukuoka		28-Jun-99	30-Jun-99	3	29	14,000		Heavy rain		8	1		TsoCpSe*	50,660	2.5		Hiroshima hardest hit with 22 dead, 12 missing. The worst natural disaster to hit region in 8 years.
39	Mexico	States - Oaxaca, Guerrero; Isthmus of Tehuantepec	Ostuta, Los Perros	24-Jun-99	28-Jun-99	5	4	15,000		Tropical cyclone			1		Tso	53,030	3.7
38	Bangladesh	Southern coastal districts: Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Maheshkhali Island, Barisal, Bhola, Barguna and Patuakhali Central/Northern districts: Kushtia, Manikganj, Natore, Sirajganj, Tangail, Bogra Western district	Meghna, Jamuna, Ganges	21-Jun-99	6-Jul-99	16	19	100,000		Brief torrential rain			1	66,600	Tszo	71,740	7.4		60,000 hectares of crops flooded.  Jumuna River: 1,600 hectares farmland lost along and 5,000 hectares inundated.
37	Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland	Romania - villages of Cuculeasa, Costieni and Zoita North and Middle Slovakia - river basin of the upper Moravia Czech Republic - Karvina Poland - town of Czechowice-Dziedzice	Ipel, Moravia	22-Jun-99	1-Jul-99	10	19	914	$   36,466,007,487	Heavy rain		1000	3	83,015	CpSe*	121,170	24.0		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Slovakia: 1,602,444 million SK.  Displaced: Romania: 800, Slovakia: 114. Week of heavy rain prior to floods.  Romania: 22,889 hectares of farm land destroyed; Slovakia: Waters covered 2539 hectares of inhabited areas a 57,587 hectares of the agricultural land. In Romania, flooding dissolved the salt caves at Slanic-Prahova mountain. Slovakia: worst floods since 50-years in Stiavnica, 100-years in Krupinica and 1000-years in Litava, Plastovce.
36	China	Qinghai province - 15 counties		12-Jun-99	19-Jun-99	8	27	100,000	$               60,405	Heavy rain			1	31,999	CSs*	97,850	6.5		No suitable AVHRR data located . Unusually heavy summer rains - flooding and mudslides.  Damaged over 6,666 ha of farmland, inundated 25,333 ha of grassland.
35	Mexico	States - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon - Cities & towns : Monterrey, Torreon, Guachochi, Namiquipa, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Jimenez	Topo Chico	14-Jun-99	16-Jun-99	3	12			Heavy rain			1		Tso	163,000	4.4		24 inches of rain in parts of Jimenez.
34	Pakistan	Sindh Province - Thatta and Badin Districts; Coastal towns of Hyderabad, Tharparker, Umer Kot, Mirpur		20-May-99	22-May-99	3	168	200,000	$         10,935,915	Tropical cyclone			1	16,187	Tszo	59,620	2.7
33	China	Provinces - Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang: Cities of Nanping, Sanming, Ningde, Longyan, Hangzhou	Yangtze, Qiangtang, Changjiang, Le'an	26-May-99	23-Jun-99	29	11			Heavy rain			1		Tszo	73,330	9.1
32	Germany, Austria, Switzerland	Germany: Bavarian Alps and Daden-Wuerttemberg- towns: Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Passau, Neustadt, Neu-Ulm, Eschenlohe, Ratisbonne Switzerland: Lake Constance; town of Lindau Austria: Vorarlberg region, city: Bregenz	Danube, Iller, Lech Wertach, Loisach, Ammer, Isar, Inn, Rhine	22-May-99	29-May-99	8	6	2,000	$    1,170,000,000	Heavy rain	Dam/Levy, break or release	154	3	12,140	CpSe*	54,320	14.5		Danube at Ingolstadt highest levels since 1845 - 7.48 meters
31	Russia	Sakha Republic in Russian Far East - city of Yakutsk	Lena	21-May-99	24-May-99	4		4,000		Snowmelt	Ice jam/break-up		2		TsuCpSe*	76,620	7.7		Lena River at record levels.
30	Peru	Loreto province - Iquitos	Amazon, Itaya, Nanay	13-May-99	24-May-99	12	4	250,000		Brief torrential rain		17	1		Tpu	184,600	10.7		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Torrential rain since Feburary intensified over the last 2 weeks.  Highest level of the Amazon in Peru in 17 yrs.
29	China	Hunan Province - Changsha Jiangxi Province - 19 villages	Yangtze	18-May-99	21-May-99	4	3	69,200		Heavy rain			1	300,000	Tszo	100,700	4.4
28	Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France	Cities/towns: Berne, Rheinfelden, Basel, Zurich, Karlsruhe	Rhine, Aare	12-May-99	17-May-99	6	2		$         33,000,000	Heavy rain	Snowmelt	140	3		CpSe*	79,470	15.2		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Rhine river: highest levels since 1859 at Karlsruhe.  Aare river: highest levels since 1917.
27	USA	Eastern Colorado - La Junta, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins. Counties: Otero, Crowley, Bent, Las Animas	Arkansas, South Platte	29-Apr-99	6-May-99	8		450	$           5,000,000	Heavy rain		44	2		TsuCpSe*	58,490	10.1		Worst flood in Otero County in 44 years.
26	Sri Lanka	Colombo District; western and south-western coast	Kelani, Kalu	17-Apr-99	22-Apr-99	6	6	200,000		Heavy rain			1		Tpz	19,020	2.5
25	Phillipines	Mindinao - Compostela Valley Province, Davao del Norte		15-Apr-99	21-Apr-99	7	11	200		Heavy rain			1		Tpz	27,200	3.2
24	Belarus	Brest, Gomel, Minsk regions	Pripyat, Dnieper, Berezina, Sozh, Nieman, Zapadnaya Dvina	7-Mar-99	10-Apr-99	35		2,000	$           2,277,778	Snowmelt			1	255,653	CSs**	130,400	12.8		Excessive spring snow melting
23	Columbia	Departments: Cordoba, Cauca, Narino, Valle, Cundinamarco and the capital Bogota	Oyuco, San Jorge	9-Apr-99	15-Apr-99	7	26	300	$                 3,000	Heavy rain			1		Tpz	360,300	11.7		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Flooding and mudslides.
22	USA	North Dakota - Grand Forks	Red, Souris	1-Apr-99	14-Apr-99	14				Snowmelt			1		CSs**	9,610	2.6		Third biggest flood in history in the area - within inches of 1997.
21	Bolivia	Rurrenabaque, San Buenaventura, San Carlos	Beni	15-Mar-99	18-Mar-99	4		1,000		Heavy rain			1		Tpz	285,300	7.4
20	Australia - Cyclone Vance	Western Australia - Exmouth, Onslow		15-Mar-99	21-Mar-99	7		1,000		Extra-tropical cyclone			1		Tsu	57,800	4.7		No suitable AVHRR data located. Widespread flooding and property damage.
19	England	North and East Yorkshire. Towns: Malton,Old Malton, Norton, Pickering, Stamford Bridge, Elvington	Derwent	7-Mar-99	13-Mar-99	7		800	$         32,583,904	Heavy rain	Snowmelt	65	2	300	C	8,300	3.5		No suitable AVHRR data located.  50mm of rain, combined with melting snow from the North Yorks Moors.
18	Mozambique	Central area and four southern provinces (Inhambane, Sofala, Tete and Zambezi). Towns: Vilankulo, Inhassoro, Maputo	Pungoe, Buzi, Govuro, Zambezi, Limpopo, Changane, Save	15-Jan-99	15-Mar-99	60	15	200,000	$         12,400,000	Heavy rain		40	2	50,000	Tpo	127,700	29.3		Heavy rains from late December 98 to March 99.
17	Romania, Hungary, Ukraine	Romania - Timisoara, west Carpathian region of Bihor Hungary - northern and eastern agricultural heartland, Tisza valley Ukraine - Zakarpattia and Lutsk regions	Bega, Tisza, Danube, Sava, Timsa	21-Feb-99	18-Mar-99	26	2	8,000		Heavy rain	Snowmelt		2	400,000	CSs*	115,200	22.1		Hectares Flooded: Hungary - 360,000 Ha; W Ukraine - 40,000 Ha. Some of the century's worst flooding in Hungary.
16	Columbia	Nationwide state of emergency, Choco Province	Atrato	18-Feb-99	27-Feb-99	10	16	20,000		Heavy rain			1		Tpz	72,040	6.2		No suitable AVHRR data located CAUSE.  Flooding and mudslides since Jan due to La Nina.  Rains exceeded historical average in the Andes region.
15	Peru	Four rivers overflowed in Amazon department of Loreto		20-Feb-99	24-Feb-99	5	36	40,000		Heavy rain			1	4,000	Tpu	107,400	5.3		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Flooding and mudslides.
14	Phillipines	Mindanao - Province of Lanao del Norte, Iligan city, Kauswagan, Linamon, Bacolod	Kauswagon, Larapan	20-Feb-99	22-Feb-99	3	39	2,700		Brief torrential rain			2		Tpz	27,980	3.7		No suitable AVHRR data located. Flash Floods. "Worst ever."
13	Thailand	Southern Provinces - Nakron, Srithammarat, Surat, Thami, Songkhla		9-Feb-99	13-Feb-99	5	3	20,000		Heavy rain			1	96,000	Tpz	117,800	5.5		No suitable AVHRR data located.
12	Indonesia	SE Sulawesi - LasuSua Sub District North Sumatra - Langkat, Tanjung Morawa and Tebing Tinggi districts		9-Feb-99	14-Feb-99	6	2	2,000		Monsoonal rain			1	50	Tpz	136,500	6.6		No suitable AVHRR data located.
11	Australia - Cyclone Rona	Southeast Queensland - Gympie, Toowoomba, Beenleigh, and Brisbane districts	Mary, Diamentina, Hamilton	6-Feb-99	12-Feb-99	7	7	1,400	$       300,000,000	Monsoonal rain		106	3		TsZo	322,900	33.2
10	Phillipines	Mindanao - Bhutuan, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur	Agusan	4-Feb-99	8-Feb-99	5	24	500,000	$           3,200,000	Brief torrential rain		18	1		Tpz	42,060	3.3		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Flash Floods
9	South Africa	Eastern Coast, KwaZulu-Natal Province		4-Feb-99	7-Feb-99	4	7	5,000		Heavy rain			1		Tso	75,250	3.8		No suitable AVHRR data located.
8	USA	Texas - Burkeville, West Vernon, Desoto, Beaureguard Parish	Sabine, Red	1-Feb-99	5-Feb-99	5				Heavy rain			1		TsoCp	56,740	3.8		No suitable AVHRR data located.  Third worst since 1991.
7	USA	Ohio - New Paris, Preble, Butler and Montgomery, Scioto & Lawrence counties	Scioto, Symmes Creek	19-Jan-99	20-Jan-99	2			$                    200	Heavy rain			1		TsuCpSe*	21,900	1.0
6	USA	Indiana - Indianapolis, W. Lafayette	White, Wabash	20-Jan-99	24-Jan-99	5	4	300		Heavy rain			1		TsuCpSe*	18,260	2.2
5	Western Fiji	Viti, Levu districts of Nadi Lautoka Ba and  Rakiraki		19-Jan-99	23-Jan-99	5	7	2,000	$           2,000,000	Heavy rain			1		Tpz	6,290	1.3
4	Northern England	Kirkby Stephen		5-Jan-99	6-Jan-99	2		200		Heavy rain			1		Cp	8,200	0.6
3	Honduras	La Ceiba, San Pedro, Sula		3-Jan-99	10-Jan-99	8		3,000		Heavy rain			1		Tpo, Tpz	16,550	2.7
2	Malaysia	States: Pahang, Johor, Terengganu, Kelantan		1-Jan-99	8-Jan-99	8	1	2,000		Monsoonal rain			1		Tpz	72,080	5.6
1	Sri Lanka	East and northern coast areas - Trincamalee District		28-Dec-98	7-Jan-99	11		23,000		Heavy rain			1	2,020	Tpz	21,090	3.5
		Yearly Totals or Averages:				11	33792	57,129,721	$   55,222,677,688					24,425,888		13,236,040
An archive number is assigned to any flood that appears to be "large": significant damage to structures or agriculture, long intervals since the last similar event, a/or fatalities
*Severity Class
Class 1: large flood events: significant damage to structures or agriculture; fatalities; a/or 1-2 decades-long reported interval since the last similar event.
Class 2: very large events: greater than 20 yr but less than 100 year recurrence interval, a/or a local recurrence interval of at 10-20 yr.
Class 3: Extreme events: with an estimated recurrence interval greater than 100 years
**Flood Magnitude = ln(duration) * severity class * sqrt(affected region)/100 {if duration=1, then duration is set at 1.1 for this calculation.}
*** Available on request
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		Causes
	1	Heavy rain
	2	Tropical cyclone
	3	Extra-tropical cyclone
	4	Monsoonal rain
	5	Snowmelt
	6	Rain a snowmelt
	7	Ice jam/break-up
	8	Dam/Levy, break or release
	9	Brief torrential rain
	10	Tidal surge
	11	Avalanche related