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Flash Flood — Christian, MO

Jun 4, 2019

Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms developed over the Missouri Ozarks from the afternoon of the 3rd to the evening of the 7th as several upper level disturbances and an upper level trough moved from the southwest U.S. to the lower Mississippi Valley. The first round of storms developed during the afternoon and evening of the 3rd, and set the stage for isolated flash flooding on the afternoon of the 4th, mainly over central and southwest Missouri. Greater than two inches of rain fell qu

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 835081). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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