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Flash Flood — Adair, OK

Jul 7, 2015

A weak, slow-moving cold front stretched across eastern Oklahoma and southwest Missouri during the morning of July 7th. The front moved slowly eastward during the afternoon. Weak upper level disturbances translating across the Southern Plains combined with very moist air along and south of the frontal boundary resulted in a couple rounds of thunderstorms during the day. Locally heavy rainfall and some flash flooding was the result across portions of eastern Oklahoma. One of the thunderstorms als

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 592177). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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