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Flash Flood — Labette, KS

Aug 8, 2019

An early morning complex of thunderstorms moved across the eastern half of Kansas during the morning hours of August 7th, 2019. This complex left an outflow boundary located over southeast and south central Kansas for the late afternoon into the evening hours. Scattered strong to severe storms developed along this boundary and produced damaging winds gusts. the training and redeveloping storms eventually turned into heavy rainfall producers into the early morning hours of August 8th, with fla

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 848049). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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