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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

629 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR BENTON... 

STEARNS...ISANTI...CHISAGO AND NORTHERN SHERBURNE COUNTIES...



AT 630 PM...WEATHER RADAR STILL INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY 

RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF ISANTI AND CHISAGO COUNTIES...AROUND WEBER... 

WYOMING AND CENTER CITY. ANOTHER HALF INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE 

ACROSS THESE AREAS. 



RAIN HAS ENDED OVER OTHER AREAS OF THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING...FROM ST 

CLOUD TO FOLEY...SANTIAGO...ISANTI AND NORTH BRANCH.  RAPID RUNOFF 

AND PONDING OF WATER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING 

HOWEVER. DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE THROUGH ROADS INUNDATED WITH FLOOD 

WATERS. WASHOUTS AROUND CULVERTS AND ON SECONDARY ROADS MAY BE 

HIDDEN BY HIGH WATER LEVELS.  



AT 540 PM...NEARLY ONE INCH OF RAIN WAS REPORTED AT NORTH BRANCH IN 

CHISAGO COUNTY. AT 435 PM...TWO AND THREE QUARTERS INCH OF RAIN WAS 

REPORTED 3 MILES NORTH OF AVON IN STEARNS COUNTY. THE STEARNS COUNTY 

SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING AROUND WAITE PARTLY LATE 

DURING THE AFTERNOON. ONE AND A HALF FEET OF WATER WAS REPORTED IN A 

FEW STREETS AROUND ST CLOUD AROUND 5 PM.

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