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Flash Flood — Christian, MO

Apr 30, 2019

Very moist and unstable conditions developed over the Missouri Ozarks 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 Springfield county warning area during the afternoon and evening. Very heavy rainfall, hail to tennis ball size, damaging winds in excess of 70 mph and 27 tornadoes occurred with this system as storms tracked repeatedly over the region

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 816776). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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