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Flash Flood — Orange, VT

Aug 21, 2009

A mid-atmospheric disturbance moved across a very warm and humid air mass located across much of Vermont during the afternoon of August 21st. Numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms developed and moved across southern and central Vermont.|Some of these showers were accompanied by very heavy rainfall rates of over 2 inches per hour. ||Flash flooding occurred in and around the town of Chelsea with numerous road washouts. Urban and poor drainage flooding was reported in downtown Rutland in a r

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 193134). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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