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Flash Flood — Escambia, FL

Jun 21, 2017

Tropical Storm Cindy first developed in the central Gulf of Mexico on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 20th and made landfall between Cameron, LA and Port Arthur, TX during the early morning hours of Thursday, June 22nd. Despite the center of the storm being far removed from the north central Gulf Coast, the effects of Cindy extended several hundred miles to the east of the center and impacted the local area starting late Tuesday and persisting through the end of the week.||The primary impact acro

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 709902). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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