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Flash Flood — Harrison, TX

Jul 5, 2020

A weak shortwave trough drifted south into Southeast Oklahoma and Southwest Arkansas during the early morning hours of July 5th, with large scale forcing enhancing shower and thunderstorm development as they built south into more unstable air across East Texas, extreme Southwest Arkansas, and Northwest Louisiana. A southwesterly low level flow was enough to sustain these showers and thunderstorms as they shifted southeast, with some of these storms briefly severe producing damaging winds which d

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 893298). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Harrison, TX

This event is one of many recorded floods in Harrison County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.

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