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Flash Flood — Platte, MO

Apr 26, 2016

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms formed on April 26th. The first round of severe weather started around sunrise, with predominantly large hail. There were a few isolated wind reports during the morning storms, but the predominant hazard with this morning round was large hail, with the largest stone being around 2 inches. The evening round of storms began after sunset and brought multiple reports of large hail, gusty and damaging winds as well as some flash flooding.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 629889). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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