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Flash Flood — Essex, VT

May 26, 2011

A surface low as well as upper atmospheric energy traveled along a quasi-stationary boundary across northern New York and Vermont during the afternoon and evening of May 26th. The air mass ahead of this boundary was moderately to largely unstable and the combination lead to numerous reports of damaging winds and very large hail (up to 2.5 inches in diameter). Some 25,000+ customers lost power during these storms. ||In addition, several rounds of thunderstorms traversed the same areas in central

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 312848). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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