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Flash Flood — Titus, TX

May 13, 2023

An outflow boundary from early morning storms extended south from Eastern Oklahoma into East Texas by the afternoon hours on May 13th, while an upper low pressure area remained stationary near the South Texas coast. Strong daytime heating within a moist air mass in place contributed to moderate instability that developed during the afternoon, with widely scattered showers and thunderstorms igniting near and east of the outflow boundary across portions of East Texas and North Louisiana. An isolat

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1100211). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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