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Flash Flood — Wayne, WV

May 10, 2011

Repetitive showers and thunderstorms, moved southeast through southeast Ohio and into portions of northeast Kentucky, and western West Virginia between 1500E and 1900E on Tuesday, the 10th. ||This convection was just northeast of a warm front. A sharp dew point gradient existed across the front. Surface dew points were around 70 degrees just southwest of the boundary. ||Initially, the main impact was large hail. As back building caused repetitive showers and thunderstorms, flooding became the

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 299480). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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