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Flash Flood in Lawrence County, Missouri

Flash Flood December 26, 2015 · Lawrence County, Missouri

1
Death
$1.5M
Damage as recorded

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

A 37 year old male was swept off of Farm Road 1130 due to flash flooding. The flooding occurred along a small tributary of Browning Hollow which is a tributary of the Spring River. Nearly all low water crossings across the county were flooded. There was several rural and county roads which sustained damage from flooding. This storm report will contain the damage estimates for the entire county for this event.

The wider storm

A slow moving and strong weather system caused several rounds of very heavy and record breaking rainfall to occur across the Missouri Ozarks which led to historic and deadly flooding.

Began near Verona (36.9423, -93.8292).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 606106. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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