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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

115 AM CDT MON JUL 8 2002



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 4 AM FOR TODD AND 

MORRISON COUNTIES...



RAIN ENDED AROUND MIDNIGHT ACROSS MOST OF THE ALEXANDRIA 

AREA...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY HAS BEEN 

CANCELLED.  HOWEVER...IT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 4 AM FOR TODD AND 

MORRISON COUNTIES.  THE REAL THREAT AREA FOR FLOODING IS HEWETT AND 

BERTHA TO STAPLES...MOTLEY AND CAMP RIPLEY.



A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA. 

RADAR WAS INDICATING THE RAIN WAS JUST ENDING AT LONG PRAIRIE...AND 

ADDITIONAL RAIN IS NOT EXPECTED TO CAUSE ANY MORE PROBLEMS AT LONG 

PRAIRIE.



HOWEVER...IN NORTHERN TODD COUNTY...MORE STORMS HAD DEVELOPED WEST 

OF EAGLE BEND...AND THESE WILL BRING MORE HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 3 AM TO 

BERTHA... HEWITT AND STAPLES.  THE STORMS WILL ALSO CONTINUE 

BRINGING HEAVY RAIN TO MOTLEY AND CAMP RIPLEY IN NORTHWEST MORRISON 

COUNTY.

  

SOME LOCATIONS FROM BERTHA AND HEWETT...TO CAMP RIPLEY COULD PICK UP 

FOUR OR FIVE INCHES BEFORE THE RAIN ENDS.

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