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Flood — Decatur, IA

Jun 9, 1999

The first two weeks of June saw a continuation of the pattern that persisted through much of May with heavy rains across most of the Des Moines HSA during the period. These rains were primarily due to meso scale forcing in the very humid airmass that persisted across the central Plains during the first half of the month. Heavy rainfall during the afternoon and evening of June 8 fell over northeast parts of the HSA as a very moist and unstable airmass combined with several weak outflow boundar

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5698958). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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