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Flash Flood — Dickinson, IA

Jun 24, 2018

Numerous outflow boundaries from overnight convection re-fired across southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa around mid afternoon as diurnal heating weakened the cap and increased MLCAPE to around 2000 J/kg. The leading edge of larger-scale lift began to move in late afternoon with jet streak punching toward central Nebraska ahead of a deep western U.S. trough, but overall deep-layer shear remained quite weak with right-moving and mean storm motion vector magnitudes at 10 knots or less northwest

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 764649). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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