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Maui, HI · Apr 10, 2003

A 6-foot wall of water moving down Palikea Stream in Haleakala National Park, in the southeast part of East Maui, swept a Kentucky man and his daughter over a 184-foot precipice at Makahiku Falls. Heavy showers falling at the higher elevations of Mt.

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Johnston, NC · Mar 29, 2010

Convection developed ahead of an amplified upper trough across the Tennessee Valley|while a strong southerly mid and upper level jet provided strong shear across the region.

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Queens, NY · Aug 11, 2004

A cold front moved into a humid airmass over the tri-state area on August 11th. Thunderstorms developed along this cold front during the afternoon. Due to the moist airmass in place over the region, the thunderstorms became quite strong to severe.

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Pima, AZ · Aug 4, 2007

Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall over the higher terrain of the Catalina Mountains. This heavy rainfall produced a flash flood which moved downstream into Bear Canyon and the popular Seven Falls area causing two fatalities.

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Washington, UT · Jul 27, 1998

Flash flooding killed 2 California hikers in the Narrows of Zion National Park. Flash flooding occurred again on the Canal Canyon Creek just south of Spring City causing even more damage.

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Flash Flood1 death$100K damage

Travis, TX · Jun 8, 1997

Rainfall of generally 2 to 3 inches fell over the four counties, with isolated totals to near 5 inches. Widespread flash flooding was reported. Some 90 residents of a mobile home park in Austin were evacuated as Walnut Creek flooded the area.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)1 death$20.0M damage

Lowndes, GA · Aug 30, 2023

Hurricane Idalia made landfall on the morning of August 30th along the coast of Taylor County Florida near Keaton Beach at approximately 745 am EDT.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)$80.0M damage

Copiah, MS · Aug 29, 2005

Hurricane Katrina will likely go down as the worst and costliest natural disaster in United States history. The amount of destruction, the cost of damaged property/agriculture and the large loss of life across the affected region has been overwhelming.

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Flood$800K damage

Uvalde, TX · Aug 23, 1998

Flooding along the headwaters of the Frio River was devastating, but campers had been removed in advance from the camps, preventing the need for dangerous last-minute rescues. Still, the flooding covered the entire camping area of Garner State Park in northeast Uvalde County.

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Flood$500K damage

Real, TX · Aug 23, 1998

Flooding along the headwaters of the Frio River was devastating, but campers had been removed in advance from the camps, preventing the need for dangerous last-minute rescues. Still, the flooding covered the entire camping area of Garner State Park in northeast Uvalde County.

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Flash Flood$300K damage

Guadalupe, TX · Jun 22, 1997

The heavy rain Friday night into Saturday afternoon had left South Central Texas soils saturated. The situation worsened Saturday evening into Sunday as heavy rain associated with the upper low pressure system redeveloped over the western Texas Hill Country.

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Flash Flood$250K damage

De Witt, TX · Aug 31, 2001

As the showers and thunderstorms continued moving southeastward, they entered Lavaca and DeWitt Counties just after midnight. Falling over soils that remained saturated from the extreme rainfall of the past two days, rain accumulations averaged almost three inches, with amounts…

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Humboldt, IA · Sep 28, 2010

A strong weather system moved through the central U.S. from the 21st through the 23rd of the month. Strong convection formed north of a warm frontal boundary lifting north through the state.

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Flood$30K damage

Kerr, TX · Aug 23, 1998

The Guadalupe River at Hunt crested at 17.6 feet, putting five and a half feet of turbulent flow over the highway 39 bridge, a main artery between the eastern and western portions of Kerr County.

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Flash Flood1 death$1.0M damage

Montgomery, MD · Sep 1, 2021

The remnants of Ida produced widespread flooding along with instances of flash flooding across the area. Tropical moisture infiltrated the area and there were moderate amounts of instability as well.

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Flash Flood1 death$6.0M damage

San Bernardino, CA · Jul 11, 1999

Thunderstorms redeveloped during the afternoon and moved slowly west southwest down the valley. Rainfall rates were high with over an inch of rain falling in less than a half hour. Radar rainfall estimates were near three inches.

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Tropical Storm1 death$1.4M damage

Burke, GA · Sep 27, 2024

Tropical Storm Helene formed in the NW Caribbean Sea on September 24. Helene moved northward into the Gulf of Mexico where it strengthened into a hurricane on September 25.

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Chester, PA · Nov 8, 2006

A slow moving low pressure system that moved from the Gulf of Mexico caused heavy rain to fall during about a twelve hour period on the 8th in Eastern Pennsylvania. Storm totals averaged between 2 and 3 inches. The heavy rain caused urban and poor drainage flooding.

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Weld, CO · Jun 30, 2023

Severe thunderstorms produced large hail, from penny to tennis ball size across parts of Jefferson, Adams, Arapahoe, Denver and Washington counties. The hail along with heavy rain caused flooding and flash flooding problems.

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Flash Flood$500K damage

San Bernardino, CA · Aug 20, 2003

Over three inches of rain in less than an hour flooded 19 businesses and 125 homes in Yucca Valley. Twenty-one swift water rescues were performed on people trapped in their vehicles by flood waters.

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Flood1 death$22.0M damage

Fremont, IA · Mar 13, 2019

A 971mb bomb cyclone moved out of the central Rockies on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 and helped to create widespread, moderate to major, and in many cases historic, flooding across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.

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Flood1 death$10K damage

Clinton, MO · Jun 26, 2021

Late in the afternoon, and through the evening hours on June 24 a cluster of storms over southeast Nebraska congealed into a line of thunderstorms that focused across northern Missouri.

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Flood1 death$50K damage

McCracken, KY · Mar 2, 2011

Flooding of the Ohio River occurred for most of the month of March. The flooding was considered moderate. The flooding was due to a prolonged active weather pattern that carried over from February.

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Flash Flood1 death$100K damage

Mohave, AZ · Aug 9, 1997

Severe thunderstorms with very heavy rain began over central Mohave County around 12:30 am and ended around 2:30 am MST. Washes rapidly filled in the vicinity of Kingman and several roads were washed out.

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