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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

1228 AM CDT THU JUN 14 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA

  FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA



* UNTIL 330 AM CDT



* AT 1228 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN

  OVER THE WARNED AREA.  MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS NORTHERN     

  IOWA...TRACKING TO THE NORTHEAST AND WILL DEPOSIT BETWEEN 1 AND 2  

  INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER FREEBORN AND FARIBAULT COUNTIES THROUGH    

  330 AM.



* THE GROUND HAS ALREADY BEEN SATURATED BY RECENT RAINFALL IN THE

  WARNED AREA...AND ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL RUNOFF AND CAUSE FLOODING.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.



ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER

COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE

ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



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