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Flash Flood — Perry, OH

Jul 9, 2013

In the muggy summer environment, a complex of showers and thunderstorms formed during the evening hours in central Ohio. The individual cells moved southeast. Repetitive showers hit a small portion of eastern Perry County and western Morgan County.||Maximum rain estimates were on the order of 3 to 3.5 inches in around 4 hours from 2200E on the 8th through about 0200E on the 9th. Measured amounts from 2 gauges around New Lexington had 2.2 inches of rain.||A new round of convection formed duri

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 451700). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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