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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

1125 AM CDT WED JUL 10 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR TODD...

MORRISON...MILLE LACS...KANABEC...DOUGLAS...BENTON...STEARNS...

POPE...ISANTI...CHISAGO...SHERBURNE...WRIGHT...ANOKA...MEEKER...

WASHINGTON...HENNEPIN...RAMSEY...MCLEOD...CARVER...DAKOTA...SCOTT AND

SIBLEY COUNTIES...



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT VERY HEAVY

RAINFALL WAS CONTINUING OVER THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL FLASH

FLOODING IS EXPECTED.



SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER ALREADY SATURATED 

GROUND IN EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. VERY HEAVY RAINS FELL THIS MORNING 

OVER THE REGION. 



THERE WERE REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING IN SAINT CLOUD...AND SAUK 

CENTRE. PEOPLE REPORTEDLY STRANDED IN CARS THIS MORNING RESCUED BY FIRE 

DEPARTMENT IN SAINT CLOUD...REPORTED BY STEARNS COUNTY LAW 

ENFORCEMENT. HIGHWAYS 28...27...38...IN TODD COUNTY IN ADDITION TO 

SOME STREETS IN LONG PRAIRIE HAD WATER OVER THEM AS OF LATE THIS 

MORNING. HEAVY RAIN FALL AMOUNTS CAN BE EXPECTED TO OCCUR IN THE 

WARNED COUNTIES. 

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