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Flash Flood — Ozaukee, WI

May 17, 2000

The second round of adverse weather on the 17th started off as a large hail and damaging wind event in Sauk County, but quickly changed to a heavy rain and flash flooding event as individual cells became more numerous and clusters moved east/southeast. Training echos were common which led to flash flooding. Damaging straight-line winds toppled large trees in Sauk and Columbia Counties while hail up to 1.00 inch in diameter also fell. However, from then on the storms became prolific rain-produce

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5143929). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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