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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

1205 AM CDT WED JUN 26 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR CHIPPEWA...

DUNN...EAU CLAIRE AND PEPIN COUNTIES...



THE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SAGGED SOUTH OF THE 

WARNED AREA.

HOWEVER...REPORTS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS INDICATE THAT 

FLOODING PROBLEMS PERSIST.  AT MIDNIGHT WATER STILL COVERED HIGHWAY 

64 NEAR CORNELL.  SOME STREET FLOODING WAS STILL REPORTED NEAR 

BLOOMER AS WELL.  IN DUNN COUNTY...WATER WAS THREE FEET DEEP ON 

STOKIE PARKWAY IN THE TOWN OF MENOMONIE.  THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING 

SOUTH OF THE TWIN CITIES DRIFT INTO PORTIONS OF PEPIN COUNTY BY 1 AM.



MOTORISTS ARE URGED NOT TO DRIVE THRU FLOODED AREAS NOR DRIVE AROUND 

ANY ROADS WHICH MAY BE BARRICADED.

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