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Flash Flood — Person, NC

May 22, 2010

Weak perturbation aloft rotated through the cyclonic flow across the region and interacted with a warm moist unstable atmosphere to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms produced wind damage and flash flooding across portions of the Northern Piedmont of central North Carolina.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 234420). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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