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Flash Flood — Montgomery, NY

Aug 5, 2003

For the third day in a row, scattered slow moving thunderstorms developed over the eastern Mohawk Valley of New York during the afternoon of August 5. Torrential rainfall from these storms produced another round of flash flooding in some of the same places that had dealt with it the last two days, especially in Montgomery County. Rain from the first round of thunderstorms caused flooding on the eastbound lanes of the New York State Thruway, with water about a foot deep in the town of Florida. R

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5333586). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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