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Flash Flood — Yazoo, MS

Sep 25, 2005

Early Sunday morning several bands of thunderstorms developed across Southwest, West-central and Central Mississippi. These bands repeatedly moved over the same locations for a few hours and produced locally heavy rainfall. Most locations received 3 to 5 inches of rain in a few hour period. The heaviest rains fell within a corridor that was generally aligned along the Big Black River. This corridor received nearly 7 to 10 inches of rain over a few hour period. The worst flooding occurred in Warr

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5478893). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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