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Knox, KY · Sep 17, 2004

On September 18, 2004 at approximately 10:47 pm EST, a 20 year old man drowned while attempting to drive his vehicle through flood waters on Highway 459, near the junction of Bull Run road, 5 miles southwest of Barbourville. The road was closed at the time of the incident.

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Flash Flood1 death$100K damage

De Soto, FL · Sep 27, 1997

Heavy rainfall of six to ten inches caused widespread flooding of roads, homes, businesses, rivers and streams from the Bradenton-Sarasota metropolitan areas south to the Port Charlotte-Punta Gorda and Ft. Myers-Cape Coral metropolitan areas.

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Los Angeles, CA · Feb 7, 1998

The third storm of the month brought more weather-related problems to Central and Southern California. Strong winds, gusting up to 70 mph, knocked down many trees and power lines. In Encino, the winds blew down Lang Oak, a one thousand year-old oak tree.

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Flash Flood1 death$100K damage

Dutchess, NY · Sep 16, 1999

The remnants of Hurricane Floyd moved up the eastern seaboard on September 16 and during the early hours on September 17. The storm brought both high winds and exceptionally heavy rainfall to eastern New York, which included a large swath of 3 to 6 inch amounts.

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Sumter, AL · Apr 7, 2003

Showers and thunderstorms stretched west to east across south central Alabama. Several heavy rain producing storms traversed the same locations from just before sunrise into the early afternoon hours.

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San Bernardino, CA · Oct 20, 2004

The second in a series of October storms brought with it heavy rain, thunderstorms, flash flooding, and funnel clouds. Very heavy rain upwards of 9 inches in the mountains caused serious flash flooding and debris flows in parts of the San Bernardino Mountains.

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Caddo, OK · Aug 18, 2007

Tropical Storm Erin, the fifth named storm of the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season, developed quickly over the northeast Gulf of Mexico on the 15th, before moving onshore during the morning hours of the 16th.

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Flash Flood1 death$100K damage

Lee, MS · May 2, 2010

An upper level disturbance slowly approached the Mid-South during the evening of April 30th, 2010 as a cold front became stationary to the west. This pattern remained in place through the evening hours of May 2nd, 2010.

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Boone, WV · Jul 25, 2010

Thunderstorms moved through north central counties of West Virginia during the early afternoon. This was south of a cold front with plenty of instability and surface dew points in the lower 70s.

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Flash Flood1 death$10K damage

Ballard, KY · Dec 21, 2013

A slow-moving cold front passed across the region between the 20th and 22nd. Several upper level disturbances moved north-northeast along the front, touching off numerous showers and thunderstorms.

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Bernalillo, NM · Jun 2, 2025

An upper low moved across the desert southwest June 1st into June 2nd helping to pull up higher moisture from former Tropical Storm Alvin in the eastern Pacific.

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Sandoval, NM · Jul 3, 2025

Another burst of abundant monsoon moisture resulted in localized heavy rainfall July 2nd and overnight into July 3rd. Burn scar flash flooding off the Salt burn scar washed out culverts that then diverted water into the Cherokee Mobile home park near Ruidoso.

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Bernalillo, NM · Jul 3, 2025

Another burst of abundant monsoon moisture resulted in localized heavy rainfall July 2nd and overnight into July 3rd. Burn scar flash flooding off the Salt burn scar washed out culverts that then diverted water into the Cherokee Mobile home park near Ruidoso.

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Franklin, KY · Apr 4, 2025

On the night of April 2nd, 2025, a cold front approached the lower Ohio Valley. Along and ahead of the cold front, numerous supercells developed over southern Illinois and western Kentucky.

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Hamilton, TN · Aug 12, 2025

A weak upper low helped advect near record moisture into Tennessee, where a boundary and classic heavy rain profiles combined to produce extreme rainfall rates over portions of Chattanooga, leading to numerous water rescues, a few evacuations, flooded interstate and local roads,…

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Tom Green, TX · Jul 4, 2025

Devastating and historic flash flooding occurred in northern and northeast portions of San Angelo, with numerous water rescues, many streets and houses completely flooded, and 1 fatality.

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Burnet, TX · Jul 5, 2025

Precipitable water values over South-Central Texas remained near record levels, and a mid-level anticyclonic circulation continued over Central Texas providing lift to generate thunderstorms.

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Burnet, TX · Jul 5, 2025

Precipitable water values over South-Central Texas remained near record levels, and a mid-level anticyclonic circulation continued over Central Texas providing lift to generate thunderstorms.

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Burnet, TX · Jul 5, 2025

Precipitable water values over South-Central Texas remained near record levels, and a mid-level anticyclonic circulation continued over Central Texas providing lift to generate thunderstorms.

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McKinley, NM · Sep 28, 2025

A troughing pattern from the Pacific brought in a late season monsoon burst of moisture to the Desert Southwest. Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over portions of the state with more locally heavy rainfall events occurring from the abundant monsoon moisture.

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Shelby, TN · Mar 1, 1997

Excessive rainfall during the first few days of March along with rivers that were already high caused prolonged flooding along the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers as well as their tributaries. Along the Mississippi, the river reached levels that had not been seen since 1937.

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Webster, IA · Jun 26, 2005

Following the second round of heavy rainfall during the night of the 25th into the morning of the 26th, widespread flooding occurred over parts of northern Iowa.

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Caldwell, KY · Feb 16, 2025

Significant flash flooding occurred over west Kentucky, as anomalously high amounts of low-level moisture streamed northward over a warm front that became stationary along the Tennessee border.

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Graves, KY · Feb 16, 2025

Significant flash flooding occurred over west Kentucky, as anomalously high amounts of low-level moisture streamed northward over a warm front that became stationary along the Tennessee border.

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