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Flash Flood — Clark, AR

May 16, 2020

On the 15th, the focus was mainly to the west of Arkansas. Showers and thunderstorms became widespread across the southern Plains surrounding a storm system wobbling this way from the southwest. Some of the fireworks managed to work into western sections of the state during the afternoon and evening.||Rain was very heavy in places, with many streets covered by water in and around Waldron (Scott County). Strong to damaging thunderstorm winds toppled trees a few miles northwest of Murfreesboro (Pi

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 885273). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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