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Flash Flood — Washington, VT

Jul 19, 2015

A weak surface low tracked across Quebec province with its associated warm and cold front moving across Vermont during the afternoon, evening of July 19th and early morning hours of July 20th. Several rounds of scattered thunderstorms moved across Vermont during the afternoon, evening of July 19th and then the early morning hours of July 20th. A few of these storms did contain isolated damaging winds and hail up to one inch in diameter. ||The greater impact of these storms was the training of st

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 594651). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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