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Flash Flood — Cumberland, NJ

Aug 12, 2014

A slow moving warm front and a low pressure system that formed along it that enhanced the convergence brought flash flooding rains to southeastern New Jersey during the evening and overnight on the 12th. Hardest hit was Cumberland County where rainfall amounts reached as high as nine inches. Some homes were damaged and one injury occurred. A series of thunderstorms with very heavy rain formed and moved along a very slowly northward moving warm frontal boundary. The rain did not end until an occl

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 540681). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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