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Flash Flood — Pulaski, AR

Dec 21, 2013

A cold front moved into northwest Arkansas on the morning of the 20th and lingered in the state until the night of the 21st. While the front was making its way slowly across the state, an area of low pressure arrived from the southwest. The result was heavy rain and flash flooding in the cooler air behind the front. In the warmer air ahead of the front, isolated tornadoes occurred.||Some of the larger rainfall totals for the 48 hours that included the 20th and 21st were: 7.92 inches 3.3 miles

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 482181). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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