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Flood — Hutchinson, TX

May 17, 2018

Perturbation off the mean 500 mb flow downstream of a small amplitude ridge axis provided a late morning round of thunderstorms for the northeast TX/OK Panhandles. As a result, some severe criteria hail was reported. The more widespread thunderstorm activity happened on the afternoon of the 17th. A dryline setup across the western and central combined Panhandles with SE surface flow around 30-40 kts and 500 mb flow out of the west of 40-50 kts. set the stages for good lift in the atmosphere with

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 755787). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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