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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

145 AM CDT MON APR 23 2001



...FLOODING REPORTED ACROSS CENTRAL AND WESTERN MINNESOTA...



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MORRISON...MILLE LACS...

STEARNS...BENTON...SHERBURNE...KANDIYOHI...MEEKER...RENVILLE...AND

REDWOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 330 AM.



A SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR TODD AND KANABEC 

COUNTIES UNTIL 330 AM.



A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR DOUGLAS...STEVENS...POPE...

LAC QUI PARLE...SWIFT...CHIPPEWA...AND YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTIES 

UNTIL 4 AM.



AT 130 AM...LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WERE REPORTING FLOODING ACROSS 

MUCH OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA. IN MEEKER COUNTY...SEVERAL ROADS ARE 

CLOSED...WITH SOME ROADS WASHED OUT JUST SOUTH OF EDEN VALLEY. 

BENTON COUNTY REPORTED FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...DITCHES...AND 

SOME ROAD WASHOUTS. RENVILLE COUNTY ALSO REPORTED GRAVEL ROADS 

WASHED OUT...WITH GENERALIZED FLOODING OF LOW AREAS. 



AS OF MIDNIGHT...3.52 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN AT THE SAINT CLOUD 

AIRPORT IN THE PAST 24 HOURS. RADAR INDICATED POSSIBLY HEAVIER 

AMOUNTS OVER WESTERN STEARNS...MORRISON...MILLE LACS...AND 

NORTHERN KANDIYOHI COUNTIES.



THE RAIN WAS GRADUALLY ENDING ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND WILL

TAPER TO SHOWERS BEFORE 4 AM. HOWEVER...FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL 

CONTINUE INTO THE DAYLIGHT HOURS. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF 

CREEKS AND STREAMS. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER COVERED AREAS 

ON ROADS...AS THE UNDERLYING ROAD BED COULD BE WASHED AWAY.

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