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Flash Flood — King, WA

Dec 14, 2006

A strong Pacific Ocean rain and wind storm struck Washington on the night of Dec 14th through the morning of the 15th. The storm initially brought one to two inches of heavy rainfall to parts of western Washington on the 14th, producing areas of urban and small stream flooding and overwhelming drainage systems. Widespread strong damaging winds followed, impacting the entire state as the storm center tracked from well off the coast east across the region near the British Columbia border. |In we

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 7417). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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