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Flash Flood — Bayfield, WI

Jun 17, 2018

Multiple rounds of thunderstorms along a stationary boundary starting Friday, June 15th, and persisting through the day June 16th, acted to saturate soils across northwest Wisconsin. Another round of training storms developed the night of the 16th, fed by a moist low-level jet. Training storms and slow storm motion led to heavy rainfall across Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland and Iron counties. Three day rainfall amounts of 6-10 inches were common through these counties with a vast majority of it fall

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 765588). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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