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Flash Flood — St. Francis, AR

Jun 29, 2014

Property Damage
$500K
Flood Cause
Heavy Rain

A strong low level winds transported a very moist and unstable airmass over a surface boundary located from Northeast Oklahoma to Northern Louisana. Thunderstorms developed over Central Arkansas during the late evening hours of June 28th. This activity quickly congealed into a Mesoscale Convective System. Thunderstorms trained along the Interstate corridor for several hours with hourly rainfall rates of more than 3 inches. Storm total rainfall reached 5 to 9 inches along this corridor. Flash flo

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 528684). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for St. Francis, AR

This event is one of many recorded floods in St. Francis County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.

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