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Flash Flood — Douglas, MO

May 21, 2019

Multiple rounds of storms producing heavy rainfall, severe winds, hail and tornadoes moved across the Missouri Ozarks from May 20th and into the early morning hours of May 24th as upper level disturbances interacted with a slow moving but powerful storm system over the central Plains. Tornadoes occurred with each round, with the strongest and most numerous tornadoes occurring during the late afternoon and evening of the 22nd. On the anniversary of the Joplin Tornado off 2011, another tornado, ra

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 827808). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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