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Flash Flood — Okanogan, WA

Jul 22, 2016

Wet thunderstorms moving to the north and northeast at 20 mph produced heavy rainfall over parts of the East Slopes and North Cascades including parts of the Okanogan Valley. The resulting heavy rainfall produced some debris flows and Flash floods near Methow, Brewster and Carlton in Okanogan County of Washington. Later on in the day this same disturbance produced more severe thunderstorms with two tornadoes occurring, one near Mould, WA and a second near Airway Heights, WA along with a number o

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 638338). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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