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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD

518 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT 

FOR...



...NOBLES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A 

CONTINUATION OF RAINFALL OVER MUCH OF NOBLES COUNTY AT 515 PM.

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVIEST RAINFALL COVERED MOST OF THE 

EASTERN HALF OF NOBLES COUNTY...WITH MOST SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL

IN THE PAST HOUR...ESTIMATED FROM ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES...

FROM NEAR ELLSWORTH...THROUGH READING...TO JUST NORTH OF BREWSTER.

OVER THE NEXT HALF HOUR...UP TO A HALF INCH OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED

ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 60...WITH LESSER AMOUNTS TO THE WEST.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND SIGNIFICANT PONDING OF SOME HIGHWAYS AND 

UNDERPASSES IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO

AREAS WITH STANDING WATER. 



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CHAPMAN

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