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Flash Flood — Medina, OH

Jul 16, 2021

A cold front moved southeastward from Lower Michigan to Lake Erie during the evening and overnight of the 15th and then stalled in vicinity of the southern lakeshore by daybreak. This was in response to one surface low moving northeastward from southwestern Quebec toward the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, while another low moved along the front from eastern Iowa to near the Michigan/Indiana border. Ahead of the front, several multicell thunderstorms generated damaging wind gusts in northern

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1010532). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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