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Flood — Wapello, IA

Jun 10, 2011

Relatively dry weather prevailed for the first week of June allowing the completion of nearly of all of the corn and soybean planting. However, rainfall was frequent and sometimes excessive from the 8th through the 22nd. Heaviest rains fell over northern Warren County on the 9th-10th with an unofficial two-day total of 9.31 inches just south of Norwalk. Rainfall frequently was heaviest over south central and southeast Iowa with record totals for any month set at Keosauqua (16.14 inches, ol

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 311330). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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