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Flood — Cherokee, KS

Mar 14, 2020

Several rounds of strong to severe storms developed from the evening of the 1st to the early morning of the 3rd as a surface low pressure system tracked from western Kansas southeastward into Red River Valley. The heaviest rainfall occurred during the early morning of the 2nd when training storms moved over southeast Kansas and produced one to three inches of rain before moving into Missouri.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 877342). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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