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Flood — Kingman, KS

Sep 9, 2016

An unusually moist atmosphere (courtesy of Hurricane Newton remnants over western Mexico) in concert with subtle upper level disturbances approaching from the southwest combined to produced several bouts of very heavy rainfall across large portions of the area during the evening and overnight of September 8th and again during the evening of September 9th, 2016. Severe storms with quarter size hail and wind gusts to 60 mph during the evening hours of September 8th, eventually evolved into an extr

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 659287). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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