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Flash Flood — Scott, AR

May 25, 2021

Abundant moisture/high humidity relocated to the Plains from the 20th to the 23rd, and we dried out temporarily. It did not last, with moisture shifting in this direction by the 25th. Early in the day, thunderstorms east of Oklahoma City, OK weakened, and left behind a system aloft. This mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) initiated new thunderstorms over the Ouachita Mountains in the afternoon.||It was a gullywasher through the evening (two to more than four inches of rain) from Waldron (Scott Co

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 962122). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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