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Flash Flood — Independence, AR

Apr 21, 2022

After a brief lull in activity, another area of thunderstorms was noted during the early morning hours of the 21st across mainly northeast Arkansas. A few storms produced wind damage and flash flooding. Precipitation did stretch northwestward into portions of southwest Missouri where several inches of rain fell, heavy rain also occurred near Jackson/Independence Counties. ||Heavy rain became widespread across western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma Sunday night April 24th into the morning hours of

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1016001). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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