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Flash Flood — Cuyahoga, OH

Jul 20, 2023

A surface low moved generally eastward from east-central Lower MI to the southeastern shore of Lake Huron during the evening of the 20th. Simultaneously, the low's warm front swept northeastward across southern ON and western NY toward the northern shore of Lake Ontario as the low's trailing cold front moved generally eastward across southeastern Lower MI and far-northeastern IN to central Lake Erie and northeastern OH.||Multiple lines and clusters of multicell thunderstorms persisted generally

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1134203). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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