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Flood$5.2M damage

Cassia, ID · Feb 4, 2017

A trend toward above normal temperatures in February after extreme snowfall amounts in both December and January led to extensive flooding issues during the entirety of the month.

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Flash Flood$2.6M damage

Trempealeau, WI · Jul 19, 2017

After a round of severe thunderstorms moved across western Wisconsin, a second round of thunderstorms developed over much of the same area during the late evening of July 19th into the early morning of the 20th.

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Flash Flood$750K damage

Dona Ana, NM · Aug 12, 2021

A surface low was setup over New Mexico with a weak easterly wave moving through the Borderland similar to a setup from August 1st, 2006. Deep moisture was in place around the area and storms were slow moving which allowed for very heavy rain to occur.

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Flash Flood$75K damage

Lincoln, NM · Aug 9, 2022

Another active monsoon day was in store for northern and central New Mexico on August 9, 2022. As is typical, thunderstorms first developed over the high terrain areas before becoming more widespread as the day progressed.

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Flash Flood$200K damage

Howard, TX · Apr 24, 2022

A shortwave trough was moving into New Mexico. There was a Pacific front near the I-20 corridor in West Texas and an intersecting dryline that extended southward. The air was unstable with high wind shear along and east of the dryline.

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Flash Flood$5.6M damage

Wilkinson, MS · Aug 12, 2016

A slow moving low pressure system brought multiple rounds of widespread showers and thunderstorms to the area. The system tapped into deep tropical moisture resulting in very intense rainfall across a large portion of the area.

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Flood$121K damage

Clallam, WA · Jan 2, 2021

From December 29 - January 16, a strong and persistent Aleutian Low pressure system developed in the eastern Pacific which directed the jet stream and primary storm track at Washington State that resulted in a rapid series of atmospheric rivers and wind storms that battered…

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Flood$40.0M damage

Beauregard, LA · Mar 10, 2016

Heavy rain from the 9th and 10th pushed Toledo Bend Reservoir to a record high level. This forced the spillway gates to fully open. Additional flood waters flowed into the Sabine River from tributaries pushing the river to record flood stages at observing points south of the dam…

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Flash Flood$2.6M damage

La Crosse, WI · Jul 20, 2017

After a round of severe thunderstorms moved across western Wisconsin, a second round of thunderstorms developed over much of the same area during the late evening of July 19th into the early morning of the 20th.

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Flash Flood$2.6M damage

Oneida, NY · Jul 1, 2017

A tropical moisture laden air mass produced numerous showers and thunderstorms which traveled repeatedly over the same areas of the Finger Lakes Region and Upper Mohawk Valley.

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Flash Flood$120K damage

Crawford, PA · Jul 11, 2021

Low pressure was slowly moving northeast from IN through northern OH during the day of July 11th, 2021, lifting a warm front northward towards northwest PA. Showers and thunderstorms moved northeast across Erie County, PA for much of the daytime hours ahead of this front.

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Flash Flood$120K damage

Bristol, MA · Sep 2, 2021

On Sept. 1, Tropical Depression Ida tracked northeasward from the central Appalachians and arrived in southern New England late in the day as a remnant low.

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Flood$1.2M damage

Starke, IN · Feb 20, 2018

A slow release of a snow pack, containing one to over two inches of water, occurred in the days leading to the event which started the process of river rises in many areas.

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Flood$1.2M damage

Marshall, IN · Feb 20, 2018

A slow release of a snow pack, containing one to over two inches of water, occurred in the days leading to the event which started the process of river rises in many areas.

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Flood$1.2M damage

Elkhart, IN · Feb 20, 2018

A slow release of a snow pack, containing one to over two inches of water, occurred in the days leading to the event which started the process of river rises in many areas.

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Flood$1.2M damage

Vernon, WI · Aug 28, 2018

A line of severe thunderstorms moved across western Wisconsin during the evening of August 27th. A brief tornado touched down and had an intermittent damage path between Tomah and Wyeville (Monroe County). The damage was limited to trees and power poles.

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Flood$120K damage

Cheshire, NH · Jul 18, 2021

During the evening of July 17th an area of low pressure slowly moved east along a stationary boundary that stretched from New York to Massachusetts.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$1.2M damage

Laurens, GA · Oct 10, 2018

Hurricane Michael made landfall along the Florida panhandle at Mexico beach (just southeast of Panama City) on the afternoon of October 10, 2018 as a high-end Category 4 hurricane (max winds of 155 MPH).

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Tropical Storm$12K damage

De Kalb, GA · Sep 27, 2024

Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in the Big Bend region of Florida at 11 PM EDT. Helene moved quickly inland bringing wind gusts between 50 and 100 mph to portions of east and central Georgia.

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Flash Flood$500K damage

Aransas, TX · Jul 7, 2021

A slow moving surface to mid level low pressure system developed over the Coastal Bend of south Texas on July 6th. This was the start of a multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary through the 8th of July.

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Flash Flood$50K damage

Clay, AR · Aug 17, 2024

A couple of decaying mesoscale convective systems moved out of southern Missouri and north central Arkansas and then merged and intensified over the Mid-South during the early morning hours of August 17. 2024.

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Flood$750K damage

Minnehaha, SD · Sep 11, 2019

Spurred by a period of excessive precipitation from September 10-12 that resulted in 5 to 10 inches of rainfall in the middle to upper reaches of the Big Sioux River Basin and 2 to 5 inches from Sioux Falls downstream, extreme rises occurred mid-month, with many basin locations…

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Flash Flood$900K damage

Greenbrier, WV · Jun 19, 2020

A broad closed off upper low drifted across South Carolina and northwest back into southwest Virginia and West Virginia bringing persistent rainfall that eventually led to flooding. There were repeated rounds of heavy rainfall with widespread amounts of 2 to 5 inches.

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Tropical Storm$1.2M damage

Tyrrell, NC · Sep 13, 2018

Hurricane Florence was a long-lived Cape Verde hurricane and the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the Carolinas. The sixth named storm, third hurricane, and the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, Florence originated from a strong tropical wave that…

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