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It then entered Pulaski County and struck the southern and eastern portions of the Little Rock suburbs, killing 5 and injuring nearly 200 others before it lifted near Adams Field Airport in College Station.
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Then-governor Paul E. Patton had initially declared 120 counties a state of emergency and deployed about 1100 National Guard Troops to the flood stricken-regions.