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Wabash, IL · Mar 13, 2015

Minor flooding occurred along the Lower Wabash River and the Big Muddy River, and moderate flooding occurred on the Little Wabash River. A heavy rainfall event on March 3 was followed by a winter storm on March 4 into early March 5.

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Flood1 death$100K damage

Montgomery, PA · Aug 28, 2011

Irene produced heavy flooding rain, tropical storm force wind gusts with hundreds of thousands of outages, moderate tidal flooding along the Delaware River and one flooding related death in Eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend of August 27th and 28th.

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Flood1 death$100K damage

Greene, AR · May 1, 2011

Heavy rains continued to occur across the Mid-Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley during the beginning part of May. In addition, spring snow melt across the Dakotas and Minnesota continued to create higher than normal river levels on the Mississippi River.

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Northern New Haven, CT · Aug 28, 2011

As Hurricane Irene moved north along the Atlantic coast and interacted with land, it weakened and made its second landfall as a Tropical Storm near Little Egg Inlet along the southeast NJ Coast on August 28, 2011 around 5:35 am EDT.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)1 death$209K damage

Franklin, NC · Sep 18, 2003

Hurricane Isabel made landfall along the Outer Banks just north of Cape Lookout around 1 pm on September 18, 2003. The eye of the storm tracked northeast passing over eastern Halifax County. Winds gusts to near Hurricane force were recorded over Halifax county.

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Flood1 death$20K damage

Madison, KY · Apr 14, 2015

After a very wet start to April 2015, another slow moving system brought widespread heavy rain to portions of central Kentucky. Widespread amounts of 2 to 4 inches fell across central and southern Kentucky. Isolated 5 inch amounts were reported.

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Flash Flood1 death$200K damage

El Paso, TX · Aug 2, 2002

A cluster of strong to severe thunderstorms moved into central and downtown El Paso from the south, dropping 1.5 to 2 inches of rain at the rate of an inch in 10 minutes on the southern spine of the Franklin Mountains.

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Flood1 death$200K damage

Logan, WV · Nov 19, 2003

Rains of 2 to 4.2 inches fell from 2200E on the 18th through 1600E on the 19th. A strong inflow of moist air from the southeast, helped enhance these rains.

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Flood1 death$200K damage

Tuscarawas, OH · Sep 8, 2004

By 445 PM EDT on 8th, Horse Shoe Bend Rd flooded east of Newcomerstown; a 9-year old girl was swept off the road by flood waters as she walked home from school. By 5 PM, Blizzard Rd flooded in Uhrichsville.

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Flash Flood1 death$500K damage

Mason, KY · Mar 1, 1997

Estimated rainfall from 5 to over 12 inches across the county in less than 36 hours caused area creeks and streams to rise out of their banks. Numerous roads were covered by water causing several vehicles to stall in the water.

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Santa Cruz, AZ · Jul 29, 2021

Scattered thunderstorms moved southwest across southeast Arizona during the afternoon and evening hours. One storm caused wind damage and flash flooding at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

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Flash Flood1 death$150K damage

Mayes, OK · Jun 20, 1999

Summary of flash flooding on June 20 1999:A cluster of thunderstorms developed during the early morning hours of June 20 on the nose of a nocturnal low-level jet.

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Flash Flood1 death$150K damage

McDowell, WV · Jul 29, 2001

The last onslaught of heavy July rain fell in waves during Saturday, the 28th, and Sunday, the 29th. The heaviest rain on the 28th was generally from the Charleston vicinity on east, into Nicholas County. Heavier rain fell again on the 29th.

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Flash Flood1 death$15K damage

Oklahoma, OK · May 31, 2013

A tornado outbreak occurred during the late afternoon and early evening hours of the 31st. A stalled front and deeply mixed dryline served as a focus for thunderstorm development. The front/dryline triple point was where the most intense supercells initiated.

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Flood1 death$150K damage

Perry, MO · Mar 1, 1997

A death occurred when an 18-year-old girl lost control of her vehicle and went off a levee which bound backwater from the Mississippi River. This death occurred around 4:30 A.M. about 9 miles east of Portageville, Missouri.

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Flood1 death$150K damage

Wyoming, NY · Sep 9, 2004

Western and central New York were inundated by drenching rains as the remnants of hurricane Frances drifted north across the region on Thursday September 9th.

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Flash Flood1 death$20K damage

Bosque, TX · Apr 29, 2016

A warm front and a dry line combined to produce another round of severe weather across the region. Three tornadoes occurred on April 29th producing relatively minor damage equivalent to EF-0 damage.

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Flash Flood1 death$250K damage

Webster, MO · Feb 16, 2008

Widespread excessive rainfall impacted almost all of extreme southeast Kansas and the Missouri Ozarks during the overnight period of 16 February into 17 February. Widespread rainfall amounts of one to three and a half inches fell.

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Dekalb, AL · Feb 22, 2019

A Jeep with 3 teenagers ventured across the spillway/bridge in Bucks Pocket State Park on February 22nd and was swept away by raging floodwaters following record rainfall across the area.

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Flash Flood1 death$10K damage

Palo Pinto, TX · Mar 30, 2007

An upper low pressure system situated to the west brought large scale lift to north Texas. Southerly winds brought deep rich moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. These and other factors caused numerous thunderstorms to develop.

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Flash Flood1 death$30K damage

Dallas, TX · Aug 18, 2012

Numerous showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall over the Dallas/Fort Worth area; resulting in flash flooding in Dallas, Tarrant, and southern Denton County. Rainfall rates up to 2 in 30 minutes were measured during the event.

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Flood1 death$125K damage

Lincoln, WV · Sep 17, 2004

As the weakening Hurricane Ivan moved inland across Alabama, light rain began in southern West Virginia on the morning of the 16th. The rain shield moved into northern counties overnight. Heavy rain began before dawn on the 17th around Huntington.

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New Madrid, MO · Mar 1, 1997

A vehicle on Interstate 55 just south of Sikeston went out of control and into the St. Johns Bayou drainage ditch. A man pulled his wife to safety from the vehicle, then he fell back into the flooded ditch. His body was swept away and not recovered for over 24 hours.

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Flood1 death$50K damage

Nemaha, NE · Jun 1, 2011

A record rain event in May in eastern Montana combined with high water from storms in April and May (and early spring snow melt) and brought high water to the Missouri River chain of reservoirs.

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