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Flash Flood — Braxton, WV

May 13, 2025

A frontal boundary stalled over the state of West Virginia beginning on May 11th, then dissolved over the area while a disturbance approached from the southwest on the 12th. Widespread precipitation progressed northward across the area on the 12th, followed by rounds of scattered showers and thunderstorms continuing to impact the area over the next couple of days as an upper level trough and surface low pressure system traversed the Ohio Valley. ||During the afternoon and evening of May 13th, st

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1252047). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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