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Flash Flood — Grand Forks, ND

Aug 3, 2016

By mid to late afternoon of August 3rd, a cold front had moved into central North Dakota. Ahead of the cold front, a warm front extended out to the east, or along the Canadian border. This put all of eastern North Dakota and the northwest quarter of Minnesota in the warm sector, where afternoon highs reached into the 80s to around 90, with dew point readings well into the 60s. A ribbon of extreme instability pooled from north to south just ahead of the cold front, with a lot of low level twistin

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 643725). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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