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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND

912 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001





...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 PM FOR

EASTERN WALSH AND WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTIES...



...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED ACROSS THE WALSH AND

MARSHALL COUNTY AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN THE GRAFTON...MINTO...

STEPHEN AND ARGYLE AREAS. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW THAT 1.5 TO 2

INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THESE AREAS BETWEEN 830 AND 900 PM.

THIS HAS LIKELY RESULTED IN SOME LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER.



DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE

MOVING ACROSS THESE AREAS AND MAY PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO ONE

AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN THROUGH 1015 PM. ADDITIONAL PONDING OF

WATER IS LIKELY IN THE GRAFTON...MINTO AND STEPHEN AREAS.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING

ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE.

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EWENS



 

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