The featured chart displays one minute interval precipitation from the Lamoni Airport weather station Tuesday evening. In total, over five inches of rainfall was reported by the sensor for the day. This large total of rainfall was thanks to thunderstorms that "trained" over the location during the evening. Just as train cars pass over the same point along the tracks, so too can thunderstorms behave like this when the winds in the atmosphere are oriented in such a conducive way. The chart shows the intense rainfall rates spike with each passing storm over a number of hours for the event.

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