Heavy Spring 2024 rainfall led to severe, widespread flooding. While the county is used to flooding, this flooding event was extreme by local standards. Some homes on six-foot-tall stilts even flooded, and these homes are generally safe during heavy...
Region 3
Region 3 is comprised of 13 units and 407 congregations. This region covers 1,258,298 square miles.
Region Staff & Leadership
Operations Coordinator
Matt Troyer-Miller
Administrative Assistant
Chris Becker
Chair
Tim Schrag
Vice Chair
Lana Tieszen
Treasurer
Thaine Dirks
Secretary
Michael Smith
Region 3 Units
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Current Responses
The 2023 Wynne–Parkin tornado was a large, deadly, and destructive rain-wrapped wedge tornado that struck the cities and communities of Wynne, Parkin, Earle, Turrell, and Drummonds in Arkansas and Tennessee on the afternoon of March 31, 2023. The...
Straight line winds damaged and destroyed many homes in the Penitas, TX area. Many of these homes are in colonias, which are vulnerable neighborhoods in the rural Rio Grande Valley, Tx...
Severe storms and flooding that began on April 26, 2024, and included heavy rainfall, flash flooding, river flooding, large hail, and hazardous wind gusts caused widespread and severe property damage, injury, or loss of life...