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Denton, TX · Jun 1, 2022

North and Central Texas began June with an unsettled weather pattern in place. An upper level disturbance and weak front worked together to generate multiple rounds of showers and storms.

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Flood1 death$28.0M damage

Peoria, IL · May 1, 2013

High impact flooding on the Illinois River continued from April into much of May. Excessive rainfall during the middle of April led to widespread flooding across a large part of northern and central Illinois and resulted in record flooding along the Illinois River in central…

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Flash Flood1 death$60K damage

Lincoln, NM · May 30, 2021

With a low pressure system centered to the southwest of New Mexico and an anomalously moist air mass being transported into the state, the stage was set for another round of showers and thunderstorms across the area on May 30, 2021.

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Flash Flood1 death$100K damage

Okfuskee, OK · Jun 1, 2013

Severe thunderstorms developed over central Oklahoma and southern Kansas along a slow-moving cold front during the afternoon hours of May 31st. Very unstable air ahead of the cold front, combined with strong wind shear, resulted in storms quickly evolving into supercells.

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Flash Flood1 death$500K damage

Arapahoe, CO · Jul 24, 2018

Thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall, 1 to 2 inches in less than 30 minutes. In Englewood, the floodwaters quickly inundated a basement apartment and trapped a woman inside. She was found unresponsive in the apartment and died several hours later.

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Flash Flood1 death$2.3M damage

Austin, TX · Apr 18, 2016

A slow moving upper low over the Southwestern U.S. combined with near record level moisture aided in producing extremely heavy rainfall and devastating flooding over portions of Harris, Waller and Fort Bend Counties.

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Flash Flood1 death$100K damage

Iredell, NC · Nov 12, 2020

Tropical Cyclone Eta moved from the eastern Gulf of Mexico, across the northern Florida peninsula, to off the South Carolina coast throughout the 11th and 12th.

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Flash Flood1 death$10K damage

Christian, KY · Aug 27, 2023

A small thunderstorm complex over the Pennyrile region of western Kentucky slowed down and intensified during the morning. A very well-defined and slow-moving mesoscale convective vortex over southeast Missouri drifted off to the southeast through the morning hours, tracking…

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Flood1 death$100K damage

Alexander, NC · Nov 12, 2020

Tropical Cyclone Eta moved from the eastern Gulf of Mexico, across the northern Florida peninsula, to off the South Carolina coast throughout the 11th and 12th.

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Flash Flood1 death$20K damage

Dallas, TX · Aug 22, 2022

A slow-moving upper trough combined with a stalling front, and a large swath of tropical moisture, to produce record and near-record rainfall across parts of North Texas late August 21 through August 22.

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Cochise, AZ · Sep 12, 2025

A very active monsoon period occurred September 12th and September 13th across Southeastern Arizona. Strong to severe thunderstorms began in the late morning on September 12th and continued through the overnight hours of September 13th.

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Flood1 death$194K damage

Madison, NE · 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$375K damage

Renville, MN · Jul 3, 2018

During the overnight hours of Tuesday, July 3rd, a persistent line of storms, with rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour, moved very little from Marshall to Redwood Falls, Olivia, then southward to Tracy, Lamberton, and Springfield, Minnesota.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)1 death$169.5M damage

St. John The Baptist, LA · Aug 28, 2005

Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest and most destructive hurricanes on record to impact the coast of the United States. It will likely be recorded as one the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States to date resulting in catastrophic damage and numerous…

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Hurricane (Typhoon)1 death$500K damage

Pitt, NC · Sep 4, 1996

Hurricane Fran moved onshore near Cape Fear Thursday evening (9/6) and raced north toward Raleigh cutting a swath of destruction. The Category 3 hurricane destroyed or damaged 90% of the homes in North Topsail Beach. The town hall and police station were destroyed.

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Tropical Storm1 death$155.0M damage

Northern Baltimore, MD · Sep 18, 2003

On September 18, 2003, Hurricane Isabel made landfall on the North Carolina Coast. Its huge wind field was already piling water up into the southern Chesapeake Bay. By the time Isabel moved into central Virginia, it had weakened and was downgraded to a tropical storm.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)1 death$150.0M damage

Lenoir, NC · Sep 14, 1999

Hurricane Floyd caused the largest peace time evacuation in the nations history. He also caused massive record flooding across inland sections of eastern North Carolina.

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Flood1 death$30K damage

Jefferson, IL · Jul 16, 2021

A series of slow-moving lines and clusters of thunderstorms moved east-southeast across southern Illinois from the midday hours through the early evening hours. The storms produced flooding rains and isolated strong wind gusts.

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Flash Flood1 death$100K damage

Hunt, TX · Feb 8, 2023

Thunderstorms moved across North and Central Texas during the morning and early afternoon of Wednesday February 8. Most storms were sub-severe, but isolated instances of hail did occur.

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Flood1 death$50.0M damage

Middlesex, NJ · Aug 28, 2011

Irene produced torrential downpour rains that resulted in major flooding and a number of record breaking crests on area rivers, tropical storm force wind gusts with record breaking outages for New Jersey utilities, one confirmed tornado and a three to five foot storm surge that…

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Tropical Storm1 death$50K damage

Northern Carroll, NH · Aug 4, 2020

Tropical Storm Isaias was the first tropical storm to impact New Hampshire since 2011. The center of the storm tracked west of the state, keeping the flooding rain associated with the storm across New York.

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Flash Flood1 death$100.0M damage

Sullivan, NY · Jun 27, 2006

Tropical moisture continued to stream northward into the Catskills ahead of a frontal system which slowly moved westward into the eastern Great Lakes by Tuesday morning the 27th.

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Flash Flood1 death$100.0M damage

Susquehanna, PA · Jun 27, 2006

Tropical moisture continued to stream northward into northeast Pennsylvania ahead of a frontal system which slowly moved westward into the eastern Great Lakes by Tuesday morning the 27th.

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Lauderdale, AL · Dec 29, 2019

The first of two lines of thunderstorms arrived in northwest Alabama during the early afternoon hours producing a couple reports of wind damage.

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