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Flood — Rock, WI

Apr 18, 2013

Repeated rounds of showers and some thunderstorms during the second half of April brought rain totals for the entire month to between 5 and 8 inches, or between 150 percent and 200 percent of normal across southern Wisconsin. With some rivers already in flood from the 2 inches to 5 inches of rain that had fallen across southern Wisconsin earlier in the month, additional minor to moderate flooding occurred at locations that had either just fallen below flood stage from the early month rain, or we

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 449785). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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