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Flood — Mitchell, KS

Jun 2, 2011

Less than 48 hours after a line of damaging winds marched across North Central Kansas, a significant episode of severe weather targeted the six-county area on this Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning in the vicinity of a surface warm front. There were numerous reports of hail to golf ball size or larger across the area, and a few instances of damaging winds up to around 75 MPH. A brief EF0 tornado also occurred in far northern Phillips County. In addition, these storms drenched much o

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 331160). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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