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Flash Flood — Hickman, KY

Feb 24, 2011

A powerful mid-level shortwave trough ejected east-northeast across the southern Plains, reaching the lower and mid Mississippi Valley during the night. In the lower levels, a low intensified as it tracked from Oklahoma into southern Missouri during the day, then across the Lower Ohio Valley in the evening. To the east of the low, a warm front advanced northward to the Lower Ohio Valley. Storms moving east-northeast evolved into an extensive QLCS (quasi-linear convective system) that produced sc

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 281069). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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