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Flash Flood — Coffee, AL

Jan 21, 2017

A multi-day severe weather event struck the southeast January 21-22, 2017 with three rounds of severe weather moving through the area. The first round of severe weather started during the mid-morning hours on Saturday, January 21, 2017 as a squall line pushed into southeast Alabama and the Florida panhandle. As it pushed eastward nine warnings were issued with a total of 18 damaging wind reports (trees and power lines downed) related to these storms.||After a brief lull during Saturday evening a

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 673314). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Coffee, AL

This event is one of many recorded floods in Coffee County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.

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