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Flash Flood — Shelby, IL

Jun 12, 2018

A series of weak impulses interacted with a stationary frontal boundary extending from northeast Missouri to southwest Indiana to produce several rounds of thunderstorms across south-central Illinois from the evening of June 11th into the morning of June 12th. The strongest cells produced damaging wind gusts of around 60mph and hail as large as golf balls during the evening of June 11th. In addition, excessive rainfall rates occurring on top of already saturated soils led to localized flash fl

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 770949). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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