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Flash Flood — Mason, WV

Jun 26, 2015

During the afternoon of the 26th, a low pressure system was organizing over the lower Ohio River. Meanwhile, ahead of that system, a frontal boundary stretched east through southern Ohio and central West Virginia. ||Thunderstorms formed along the frontal boundary in southern Ohio, with more widespread rain north of the front. Those thunderstorms moved slightly south of east into western West Virginia. One of the leading storms was severe with mid level rotation. It pulsed to its strongest le

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 574449). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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