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Flash Flood — Quitman, MS

Jun 8, 2021

An upper low parked over the Mid-South resulted in widespread showers and thunderstorms across North Mississippi during the early morning hours of June 8, 2021. Some locations received up to 4 inches of rain before sunrise which set the stage for flash flooding later that morning into the afternoon as a mesoscale convective vortex pushed into the Mid-South. This feature resulted in several areas of showers and thunderstorms moving across North Mississippi during the day with numerous reports of

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 970180). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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

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