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Flood — Bay, FL

Mar 27, 2016

An active week prevailed to finish out March. On the 24th, a squall line moved across the tri-state area bringing mainly damaging wind gusts, although large hail was also reported in Enterprise, AL. Additional rounds of heavy rainfall occurred on March 27th with storm totals up to 11 inches measured in Bay county. This resulted in flooding across portions of the Florida panhandle.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 620580). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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