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Flash Flood — Polk, AR

Mar 12, 2020

Early on the 11th, a front was parked over southern Arkansas, with a storm system approaching from the west. The system set off a large area of showers and thunderstorms in Kansas that tracked along and north of the front through northeast Oklahoma and into our neck of the woods.||Between 600 am and 800 am CDT on the 11th, severe storms cranked out quarter size hail at Jerusalem (Conway County) and just northwest of Walnut (Newton County). At least 2.00 inches of rain was unleashed from the clou

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 880232). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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