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Flash Flood — Zapata, TX

Aug 22, 2008

Another vigorous upper level disturbance dropped southward from western Texas into Northern Mexico, contributing to the development of another complex of strong thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of August 22nd across already waterlogged southwestern Starr County, extending northward into southern and central Zapata County. ||This complex once again dropped torrential rains in the middle Rio Grande Valley/Rio Grande Plains, this time favoring locations from Roma to points north and w

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 131771). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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