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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

1028 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM FOR CARVER...DAKOTA 

AND SCOTT COUNTIES...



THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE SHIFTED OFF TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE WARNED AREA 

BUT STREET FLOODING CONTINUES IN SOME LOCATIONS.  AT 1015 PM...LAW 

ENFORCEMENT REPORTED STREET AND BASEMENT FLOODING IN THE NORWOOD AND 

WACONIA AREAS OF CARVER COUNTY.  MUDSLIDES WERE REPORTED IN THE 

BELLE PLAINE AND JORDAN AREAS.  STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED EARLIER 

THIS EVENING IN APPLE VALLEY AND ROSEMOUNT.  



ADDITIONAL OVERNIGHT RAINFALL WILL BE LIGHT...GENERALLY ONE QUARTER 

INCH OR LESS.  STREET FLOODING WILL CONTINUE IN THE WARNED AREA 

THROUGH 1130 PM.  



DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOWING WATER ON ROADWAYS AS IT TAKES AS LITTLE 

AS 6 INCHES OF WATER TO CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE.  

VEHICLES WITH LARGER TIRES SUCH AS SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES...TEND TO 

BE AT GREATER RISK BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE BUOYANT.

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