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Flash Flood — Fillmore, MN

Jul 19, 2019

Several rounds of thunderstorms moved across southeast Minnesota during the late evening of July 18th into the early morning of July 19th. As the initial round of storms moved through, a brief tornado touched down east of Witoka (Winona County). The tornado damaged a house and numerous trees. These storms dropped between 3 and 5 inches of rain across portions of Winona and Houston Counties. Runoff from this heavy rain caused a mudslide to occur near Pickwick (Winona County) with a rock slide occ

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 846210). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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