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Flash Flood — Phillips, KS

Jun 11, 2010

A cluster of severe thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall made for an active Friday evening across parts of North Central Kansas, especially in Phillips County. The initial severe storms developed during the mid to late evening hours in the vicinity of a quasi-stationary surface front draped from Northwest Kansas to East Central Nebraska. With surface dewpoints pushing the low 70s in many areas, the airmass was quite unstable as storms organized, with MLCAPE values into the 3000-4000 j/kg ra

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 239058). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Phillips, KS

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