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Flash Flood — Red River, TX

May 8, 2015

A large complex of showers and thunderstorms moved into Northeast Texas during the early morning hours of May 8th, with this complex slowing as it moved into Harrison County. Additional showers and thunderstorms containing heavy rainfall redeveloped over the same areas of western and central Harrison County, with rainfall amounts of three to in excess of six inches falling in a couple of hours, resulting in significant flash flooding near Hallsville and Marshall. ||Other scattered showers and th

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 566662). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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