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Flood — Woodruff, AR

Aug 16, 2017

Heavy rain brought flooding to the Cache River during the middle of August.||Given all of the rain, flooding was almost non-existent locally. That changed on the 15th. The front had lifted a bit to the north by this time, and was draped across central Arkansas. Before dawn, a large cluster of thunderstorms hit areas along and north of the Arkansas River, mainly north and west of Little Rock (Pulaski County). At least two dozen reporting sites registered four inches of rain or more.||By 700 am CD

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 719741). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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