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Flash Flood — St. Croix, WI

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 and western Wisconsin before stalling Monday morning. During the onset of the heavier rainfall, a few storms caused wind damage near Tainter Lake and Colfax, but most of the damage was minor with a few large tree limbs and power lines blown down. ||Deep moisture convergence along the axis of thunderstorms, training along the periphery of the

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 891063). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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