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Flood — Cherokee, OK

May 5, 2022

A strong storm system slowly moved from the central Rockies into the Southern and Central Plains on the 4th and 5th. The associated surface frontal boundary located over northern Texas early on the 4th moved north into central Oklahoma as a warm front by the late afternoon, and then near the Kansas border on the 5th ahead of a cold front. The first round of thunderstorms developed over eastern Oklahoma during the morning hours of the 4th. These thunderstorms were rooted above a shallow, stable l

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1031893). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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