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Flash Flood — Jackson, IA

Jul 18, 2007

Heavy rain-producing showers and thunderstorms moved across eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois during the evening and overnight hours of July 18th. A bowing segment of thunderstorms pushed east southeast across areas from just south of Waterloo, IA to the Quad Cities producing widespread wind damage, torrential rainfall, and an isolated tornado near Paris, IA. Rainfall totals ranged between three quarters of an inch to just under 3 inches, but due to saturated soils some flooding problems dev

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 52647). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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