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Flash Flood — Richland, LA

Dec 9, 2008

A round of severe thunderstorms containing tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds, occurred Tuesday December 9th into Tuesday night across much of the Lower Mississippi River Valley. These storms developed along and ahead of a strong surface cold front and strong upper level disturbance. A surface low developed to our west and tracked eastward increasing the winds and drawing northward deep moisture and instability. The cold front steadily pushed east and clashed with the unstable and highly s

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 140217). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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