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Flood — Beaver, PA

Mar 10, 2011

A deepening low pressure system, originating from the southern plains, moved towards the western Great Lakes on Wednesday March 9th. A wintry mix of precipitation changed over to all rain as the warm front associated with this system pushed across the region on Wednesday morning. Periods of moderate to heavy rain continued through the passage of the upper level trough late Thursday. With much of the region already saturated from previous rainfall over the past 2 weeks many streams and creeks wer

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 289283). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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