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Flooding and Rip Current Concerns from Chantal; Lingering Flood Watches in Central Texas

Chantal is now a Tropical Depression. Flash flood concerns continue across portions of central North Carolina into Monday. Life-threatening surf and rip currents conditions are expected to continue at beaches along the U.S. East Coast from northeastern Florida to the Mid-Atlantic states during the next day or so. Flood Watches and recovery continue across central Texas. Read More >

March 4, 1955
Counties:   Madison
F-scale:  F3
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  2
Path width:  250 yards
Path length:  5 miles
Time:  6:45pm
Grazulis Narrative:  Moved east from Cottonburg to south of Richmond.  Two homes and several barns were destroyed.  Ten cows were killed.
Noted discrepancies:  SPC and NCDC call this an F3, Grazulis calls it an F2.  SPC and NCDC give it a path length of 9 miles, Grazulis and Storm Data give a length of 5 miles.  SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC 30 yards, and Grazulis and Storm Data 250 yards.  (Grazulis and Storm Data list the touchdown at "Cottonwood", by which they probably mean "Cottonburg", which is west of Richmond two miles east of the Garrard County line.)