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Flash Flood — Marion, TN

Jul 10, 2013

The humid air mass over Eastern Tennessee became moderately to strongly unstable ahead of a cold frontal boundary generating damaging winds. In addition, flash flooding developed across parts of the region due to storms moving across already saturated ground from soaking rain that occurred earlier in the week.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 467033). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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