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Flash Flood — Muskingum, OH

Apr 2, 2024

Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms prompted a widespread flash flood problems across the Ohio River Valley on April 2nd to April 3rd. The synoptic pattern across the CONUS was a slow moving and deep elongated trough over the Great Plains phasing with a ejecting trough over the Midwest that created an area of converging moisture over eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Overall, over a span of 4 days, four to five an half inches of rain fell across the region. Not only was small tribut

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1172913). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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