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Flash Flood — Lamoille, VT

Aug 2, 2008

A surface trough in New York, associated with low pressure in Ontario Canada, lifted northeast across Vermont during the afternoon and evening of August 2nd. A feed of very moist air from the Atlantic interacted with the trough to fuel thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall across portions of Vermont. ||Some of these areas in Vermont, especially Washington County, received several inches of rain the previous day. The wet antecedent conditions combined with additional rainfall of several inches o

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 132908). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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