Flash Flood in Jasper County, Missouri

Flash Flood August 22, 2015 · Jasper County, Missouri

Death

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Several roads and drainage basins were flooded around the Holiday Inn Conference Center on the south side of Joplin.

In a non flooded drainage culvert, a 50 year old Joplin man drowned while jumping into the ditch to help two children who were playing in the water. This indirect fatality occurred near the 900 block of East 5th Street just north of Ewert Park.

The wider storm

A cluster of slow moving thunderstorms produced minor flash flooding.

Began near Joplin (37.0864, -94.5035).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 590049. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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