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Flash Flood — Jefferson, KS

May 26, 2016

Another round of severe thunderstorms brought more pain and hardship to the area in the form of large hail, damaging winds, flooding rains and 3 more tornadoes. The strongest tornado hit Wamego and areas just north of Wamego but thankfully it was a weak tornado producing EF1 damage north of the city and EF0 damage in the town. A second brief tornado was caught on video just southwest of Rossville while a third tornado did damage to Silver Lake. Both the Rossville and Silver Lake tornadoes were

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 636504). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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