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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

545 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA



* UNTIL 900 PM CDT



* AT 545 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS     

  OVER CENTRAL FREEBORN COUNTY...REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY.



* THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING OVER THE WARNED AREA...

  RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. 



DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR WILL 

FALL FROM THESE STORMS...ESPECIALLY IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FREEBORN 

COUNTY. THIS WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES IN SMALL STREAMS...WATER TO GO 

OVER ROADWAYS...AND URBAN FLOODING.



ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER

COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE

ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



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