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Flash Flood — Logan, KY

Jul 5, 2013

An anomalous upper air pattern developed July 3rd as a deep trough over the Lower Ohio Valley became cutoff and essentially retrograded westward over the lower Missouri Valley. As this trough moved westward, southerly flow between it and strong high pressure off the mid-Atlantic seaboard brought tropical moisture northward across the Tennessee and Lower Ohio Valleys. Despite widespread cloudiness and cool temperatures, repeated tropical showers from July 4th through the 6th brought several epi

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 451006). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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