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Flash Flood — McCulloch, TX

May 8, 2019

Daytime heating, an approaching upper level low pressure system and a dryline across West Central Texas triggered the development of a few supercell thunderstorms. These storms continued to form until shortly after midnight on May 8. These severe storms produced baseball size hail near Sonora and damaging thunderstorm wind gust reports across the area.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 829482). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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