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Flash Flood — Wood, WV

Jul 10, 2013

A cold front approaching from the west interacted with a very warm and moist tropical air mass.||A corridor of showers and thunderstorms persisted throughout the day Wednesday from Southeastern Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia, northeastward through southeastern West Virginia. This area intensified and expanded in the afternoon heat. Other thunderstorms developed in the afternoon heat around the lower Ohio River. A massive complex of thunderstorms expanded and intensified as it moved up the

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 452358). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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