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Flash Flood — Decatur, TN

Mar 27, 2021

A warm front lifted north across the Mid-South during the morning hours of March 27th. Numerous thunderstorms resulted in heavy rain near the Tennessee/Mississippi line and some flash flooding along with an isolated damaging wind report. The front continued to lift north during the morning along with the complex of showers of thunderstorms. After a brief break during the early afternoon, thunderstorms started to redevelop in the moist and unstable airmass across east-central Arkansas, Southwest

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 950040). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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