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Flash Flood — Nicollet, MN

Jun 14, 2016

Tuesday morning, June 14th, a line of thunderstorms moved across far southern Minnesota, and into east central Minnesota and produced localized one to two inch rainfall amounts. During the early afternoon, a line of strong to severe thunderstorms developed across northeast Nebraska, and into northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota and produced damaging winds of 60 to 70 mph. These storms moved into south central Minnesota and produced a few tornadoes, several reports of wind damage, and torrential r

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 641421). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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