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Flash Flood — Wayne, IA

Jun 24, 2015

A slowly northward moving boundary/warm front was draped across the area throughout the day. By the evening vigorous storms fired up just north of the boundary and continued as the low level jet began to pick up. Numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds were reported. Fairly quickly after sunset, storms transitioned away from multi-cellular severe to training heavy rain producers over an area NW to SE roughly from Carroll to Bloomfield, including portions of the Des Moines metro. Res

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 576700). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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