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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND

940 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA

  

* UNTIL 340 AM CDT



* ...AT 932 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR

  INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF NORMAN COUNTY.



* RAINFALL RATES OF TWO TO THREE INCHES PER HOUR MAY CAUSE

  STREET...BASEMENT...AND OVERLAND FLOODING THROUGH THE EARLY

  MORNING HOURS. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO ONE AND A HALF

  INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN

  NORMAN COUNTY. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WARNING ARE HALSTAD...

  HADLER...ADA...AND TWIN VALLEY.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING 

ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE. PLEASE DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER 

OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. ONE OR TWO FEET OF WATER WILL FLOAT MOST CARS 

DOWNSTREAM.



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