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Flash Flood — Woodson, KS

May 24, 2019

A prolonged period of severe thunderstorms that produced a grand slam of flash floods, large hail, damaging winds & even a couple tornadoes hit nearly all of the Wichita (ICT) County Warning Area (CWA) throughout the afternoon & night on the 24th. Of the severe thunderstorm modes, floods & flash floods proved to be, by far, the greatest threat to these areas. The flash flooding continued across primarily Southeast Kansas well into the 25th and in parts of South-Central Kansas, the morning of the

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 825534). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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