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Flash Flood — Appanoose, IA

Jul 6, 2008

A weak warm frontal boundary extened from west central into southeast Iowa at sunrise on the 6th. Thunderstorms developed along the boundary, especially over southeast Iowa. The storms were very slow moving in a moist environment. The atmosphere was weakly sheared with the propagation vector nearly opposed to the environmental wind vector. As a result, the storms developed and moved very slowly to the south. One cell became quite intense over southwest Appanoose County. For a period of tim

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 100171). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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