Flash Flood in Buchanan County, Iowa
Flash Flood May 23, 2004 · Buchanan County, Iowa
What the National Weather Service wrote
Roads flooded and washed out.
The wider storm
A persistent stationary front continued to remain across Iowa and Northern Illinois. Two squall lines developed in the late afternoon in Western Iowa, one north and one south of the stationary front. These squall lines raced east across Eastern Iowa and Northern Illinois. Flash flooding was again renewed across parts of Northeast Iowa that had been hit with three rounds of heavy rain in the past 48 hours. A woman was killed in Buchanan County Iowa and her husband injured when they drove a truck into a flooded and washed out road.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5416667. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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