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Flash Flood — Sibley, MN

Jun 29, 2020

During the evening of Sunday, June 28th, a complex of thunderstorms that developed across Iowa previously, moved slowly northward across southern Minnesota before stalling in central Minnesota Monday morning. Before the torrential rain began in south central Minnesota, a few of the storms caused minor damage to a home in Sibley County. ||Deep moisture convergence along the axis of thunderstorms, training along the periphery of the the numerous boundaries, combined with PWAT values of 1.7 to 1.9

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 890939). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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