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Flash Flood — Bowie, TX

May 10, 2009

Severe high precipitation supercells developed across north central |Texas the evening of May 8th and moved slowly eastward just south of the Red River during the pre dawn hours of May 9th. These storms |encountered a strong capping inversion as they moved east which resulted in these storms collapsing before they moved into northeast Texas. However, one storm collapsed and produced a heat burst in Red River County Texas. As the storm collapsed, it produced damaging wind gusts across the west

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 169957). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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