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Flash Flood — Tyler, WV

Feb 29, 2012

Ahead of a warm front, showers and embedded thunderstorms began before dawn on Wednesday, the 29th. The warm front lifted northeast through West Virginia between dawn and midday. By late afternoon that warm front had lifted into the northern panhandle and southwestern Pennsylvania. In the warm sector, the showers diminished by late morning and midday across the southern half of West Virginia. However, despite being just south of the warm front, showers and thunderstorms continued during the

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 365579). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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