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Flash Flood — McIntosh, OK

Apr 28, 2021

Strong to severe thunderstorms moved through eastern Oklahoma during the morning of the 28th. These storms produced locally heavy rainfall that resulted in flash flooding, damaging wind gusts, and three tornadoes. Another round of thunderstorms developed across eastern Oklahoma during the evening of the 28th, as a cold front moved into the area. The strongest storms produced damaging wind.||Widespread heavy rainfall of four to six inches, with isolated amounts to eight inches, resulted in signif

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 953646). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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