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Flash Flood — Crawford, KS

Apr 30, 2019

Very moist and unstable conditions developed over Southeast Kansas ahead of an intense low pressure system over the Southern Plains. Widespread severe storms developed over Oklahoma and eastern Kansas during the early morning hours and tracked eastward into the eastern Kansas counties of the Springfield County Warning Area during the afternoon. Very heavy rainfall and straight line wind damage occurred with this system as storms tracked repeatedly over the region. The resulting rainfall led to f

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 816632). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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