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Flash Flood — Grant, LA

Feb 21, 2018

An upper level low pressure system progressed east southeast from the Pacific Northwest into the Central and Southern Rockies on the morning of February 20th, reinforcing a cold front slowly southeast into East Texas and North Louisiana during the morning and afternoon hours on February 21st. A deep southwest flow aloft was present along and behind the front across the Southern Plains and Mississippi Valley, with weak embedded disturbances in the flow helping to enhance the development of scatte

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 732876). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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