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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

212 AM CDT SAT APR 7 2001



...MORE HEAVY RAINS TO SPREAD INTO WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

OVERNIGHT...



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHANHASSEN HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA

THROUGH 700 AM THIS SATURDAY MORNING.



THE AREA AFFECTED BY THIS ADVISORY WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM

MONTEVIDEO...SUNBURG TO GLENWOOD.



RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES AS OF 200 AM WAS LITTLE OVER TWO INCHES

OVER EASTERN SWIFT AND SOUTHERN POPE COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL

MINNESOTA. MOST LOCATIONS RECEIVED AROUND AN INCH OR MORE THROUGH

MIDNIGHT.  MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WILL

RAPIDLY PASS THE BENSON...MONTEVIDEO AND ALEXANDRIA AREAS

INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS...WILL LIKELY AGGRAVATE THE POTENTIAL OF

URBAN FLOODING AND LOW LYING FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN FLOOD PRONE

AREAS.



PONDING OF WATER OVER ROADWAYS AND UNDERPASSES IS LIKELY.



MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED STREETS OR

UNDERPASSES.



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JVM

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