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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND-GRAND FORKS

852 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT TUESDAY

MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA

     SOUTHWESTERN KITTSON



IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA

     SOUTHEASTERN PEMBINA



AT 850 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS 

WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN PEMBINA 

AND SOUTHWESTERN KITTSON COUNTIES FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF DRAYTON TO 

10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HALLOCK. THIS AREA HAS RECEIVED FROM 1 TO 2 

INCHES OF RAINFALL SINCE 530 PM CDT...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 1.5 

INCHES POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE 

NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS MAY CAUSE STREET AND BASEMENT FLOODING IN 

THE BOWESMONT...MATTSON...KENNEDY AND DONALDSON AREAS BY 930 PM CDT.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG 

THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE 

SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO END OVER SOUTHEAST KITTSON AND 

SOUTHWEST PEMBINA COUNTIES BY 11 PM CDT...WITH THE THREAT OF 

URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING DIMINISHING BY 1 AM CDT AS SURFACE 

RUNOFF ENDS. 



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