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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA

1150 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CERRO GORDO AND FRANKLIN 

COUNTIES UNTIL 330 AM...

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WRIGHT COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...



AT 1135 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NEARLY 

STATIONARY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF CERRO GORDO AND 

FRANKLIN COUNTIES.  ALTHOUGH RAINFALL INTENSITY HAS DIMINISHED 

SOMEWHAT SINCE 1100 PM...RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES STILL 

INDICATED LOCAL RAINFALL RATES OVER AN INCH PER HOUR.  THIS MAY 

CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ALONG OTTER AND BUFFALO CREEKS...AS WELL AS 

OTHER LOW LYING AREAS.  THE RAINS HAVE ENDED FOR THE TIME BEING 

ACROSS WRIGHT COUNTY...SO THAT PORTION OF THE WARNING HAS BEEN 

CANCELLED.



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTERS REPORTED THE FOLLOWING RAINS THIS 

EVENING.

    AROUND 5 INCHES IN VENTURA AT 930 PM...

    1.7 INCHES NEAR ALEXANDER AT 936 PM...

    2.29 INCHES IN FOREST CITY BETWEEN 800 PM AND 900 PM...

    4.5 INCHES IN GARNER FROM 725 PM TO 934 PM...

    AND 2 INCHES IN THORNTON AT 1015 PM.

 

DOPPLER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATED ANYWHERE FROM 4 TO 6 

INCHES HAD FALLEN ACROSS WESTERN CERRO GORDO AND WESTERN FRANKLIN 

COUNTIES BETWEEN 800 PM AND 1100 PM.  MUCH OF THIS APPEARED TO FALL 

BETWEEN THE CITIES OF ALEXANDER AND VENTURA.



FLASH FLOODS OCCUR QUICKLY...SO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RISING 

WATERS THREATEN YOUR LOCATION.  FLASH FLOODING CAN BE ESPECIALLY 

DANGEROUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO SPOT.  AVOID WATER 

COVERED ROADS AS THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT.  LESS THAN ONE FOOT OF 

FAST FLOWING WATER CAN SWEEP AN AUTOMOBILE OFF THE ROAD.



LAT...LON 4291 9367 4256 9366 4256 9304 4326 9305

          4326 9350 4291 9351



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