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Flash Flood — Burlington, NJ

Jul 22, 2013

The combination of a stalled frontal boundary, extending from the Pennsylvania/Maryland border eastward across southern New Jersey, and a series of upper level disturbances resulted in numerous slow-moving thunderstorms from the afternoon of the 22nd through the early morning of the 23rd. These thunderstorms produced torrential rain and some wind damage.||Storm total rainfall measurements ranged mainly between 2 and 7 inches across central to northern New Jersey. Run-off from waves of heavy pre

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 470081). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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