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Flood — Motley, TX

Apr 22, 2015

Early this morning, a series of outflow boundaries moved south across the southern Texas Panhandle and much of the Rolling Plains. The most organized of these boundaries would eventually retreat north before stalling from near Hereford (Deaf Smith County, WFO AMA) southeast to Paducah (Cottle County). This boundary provided the focus for an intense and long-lived supercell that developed west of Hereford by mid-afternoon. This supercell proceeded to move southeast and impact areas from Happy and

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 564273). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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