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Flash Flood — Athens, OH

May 4, 2012

Convection dropped from northwestern Ohio during the late afternoon and reached into southeast Ohio during the evening hours of the 4th. This was south of an east to west cold front in northern Ohio. That front was sinking slowly south. Surface dew points were in the mid 60s. ||The convection consolidated into large cold clusters, first in eastern Ohio. As these weakened, the clusters of showers and thunderstorms to their southwest got stronger. These moved through southeast Ohio. Rain am

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 372583). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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