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Flash Flood — Angelina, TX

Apr 30, 2021

A cluster of showers and thunderstorms developed during the late evening hours of April 29th over Deep East Texas, near and just south of a weak cold front that drifted south across East Texas and North-Central Louisiana. These storms developed in a very moist air mass, near an inverted low level trough that extended from Deep East Texas into West-Central Louisiana. Additional forcing aloft was provided by increasing large scale forcing ahead of a closed upper low over Northern Mexico, which res

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 947010). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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