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Flash Flood — Rock, WI

Mar 13, 2006

During the late evening of Sunday, March 12, flash floods occurred over a couple southern Wisconsin counties as a complex of thunderstorms producing torrential rainfalls moved across the area. Several thunderstorms trained over the same locations in parts of Rock County and Walworth County. Rainfall totals ranged from 1 to locally 4 inches across portions of Rock and Walworth counties. Some NWS Co-op stations near these storms reported 2.90 inches at a location 6 miles northwest of Elkhorn (W

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5494633). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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