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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN

715 AM CDT MON APR 23 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF

NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN UNTIL 100 PM...



THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 1

PM FOR THE FOLLOWING CITIES IN NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA...BRAINERD...

AITKIN...PINE CITY...DULUTH...MOOSE LAKE AND CLOQUET. IN

NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN...SUPERIOR...BAYFIELD...WASHBURN...ASHLAND

AND SOLON SPRINGS ARE IN THE ADVISORY.



RAINFALL OF ONE TO THREE INCHES FELL ACROSS THE NORTHLAND FROM

SUNDAY THROUGH THIS MORNING. THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED...AND

STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE BEGINNING TO OVERFLOW IN SOME AREAS OF THE

NORTHLAND. THE LATEST REPORTS FROM AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE:



IN AITKIN COUNTY...THE RIPPLE RIVER WAS BEGINNING TO OVERFLOW ITS

BANKS...CAUSING SOME FLOODING CONCERN NEAR A COUPLE BUSINESSES BY

HIGHWAY 210 EAST OF AITKIN. OTHER PROBLEMS WERE OCCURRING ON COUNTY

ROAD 10 JUST OFF HIGHWAY 169.



IN PINE COUNTY...NUMEROUS ROADS HAD WATER OVER THEM OR WERE CLOSED.



IN DOUGLAS COUNTY WISCONSIN...HIGHWAYS Z...B...N...S...F...D AND P

WERE CLOSED OR IMPASSABLE. ALSO...THE AMNICON RIVER WAS OVERFLOWING

ITS BANKS AND STARTING TO SPILL ONTO HIGHWAY 13.



IN BAYFIELD COUNTY WISCONSIN...HIGHWAY 13 WAS CLOSED FROM

CORNUCOPIA TO PORT WING...DUE TO RISING WATER FROM THE FLAG RIVER.

WHITTLESEY CREEK WAS ALSO CAUSING SOME WATER PROBLEMS. A FLOOD

WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WHITTLESEY CREEK.



IN ASHLAND COUNTY WISCONSIN...NO MAJOR PROBLEMS WERE REPORTED...

ALTHOUGH THERE WERE SOME LOW LYING AREAS BEING FLOODED.



MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA

TODAY...BRINGING MORE UNNEEDED RAINFALL TO THE REGION. MOST STREAMS

AND CREEKS ARE ALREADY BANKFUL OR ABOVE...AND ANY ADDITIONAL

RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE THEM TO GO OUT OF THEIR BANKS. LOW SPOTS

IN ROADS AND CITY STREETS WILL ALSO BE PRONE TO FLOODING.



MANY OF THE ROAD PROBLEMS MAY HAVE YET TO BE REPORTED TO LAW

ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL TODAY...BE SURE TO

SLOW DOWN AND USE CAUTION WHENEVER YOU APPROACH WATER ON THE ROADS.

NEVER DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS...THEY MAY BE HIDING A WASHOUT

WHICH COULD CARRY YOU TO HIGHER AND FASTER FLOWING WATER.



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