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Flash Flood — Jo Daviess, IL

Aug 9, 2009

A cold front stretching across the upper Midwest, coupled with warm moist air streaming northward across the area, brought scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms to portions of east central Iowa and northern Illinois during the midday hours August 9. Some locations along the Highway 20 corridor saw rainfall amounts ranging from 1 to 2 inches from these storms. Afternoon high temperatures were in the upper 80s to lower 90s.||By late afternoon, showers and thunderstorms began to redevelop al

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 194830). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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