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Flash Flood — Shelby, TN

Aug 9, 2023

Flood Cause
Heavy Rain

A warm front lifted north into the Mid-South during the morning hours of August 9, 2023. An upper-level trough moving into the region interacted with this front to produce numerous showers and thunderstorms from northeast Arkansas during the late morning shifting east-southeast into southwest Tennessee and northeast Mississippi during the early afternoon. Along and south of the front surface-base convective available potential energy values increased to 1500 J/kg due to surface heating while mid

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1132085). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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