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Flash Flood — Tazewell, VA

Aug 31, 2024

Showers and thunderstorms developed over the region within a warm and moist airmass on the east side of a cold front. A few of these thunderstorms increased to severe levels and produced damaging wind gusts with trees being blown down. One line of storms developed across the northern half of Tazewell County, producing downpours at rates of three to locally five inches per hour. Crest Unit Streamflow north of the Town of Tazewell was indicating returns of between 600 and 750 cfs per mi^2, with t

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1214492). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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