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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

705 PM CDT THU SEP 5 2002



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR RUSK AND NORTHERN CHIPPEWA COUNTIES 

HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...



HEAVY RAINS ENDED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON...WITH RADAR ESTIMATES 

OF FOUR TO SIX INCHES FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF NEW AUBURN IN CHIPPEWA 

COUNTY...TO JUST EAST OF ISLAND LAKE IN RUSK COUNTY.



THERE WAS ONE REPORT...7 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW AUBURN...OF MORE 

THAN FOUR INCHES RAIN...WITH WATER STANDING IN NUMEROUS PLACES IN 

FIELDS AND YARDS.  ANOTHER REPORT FROM JUST EAST OF ISLAND LAKE 

INDICATED THE HEAVY RAIN WAS QUICKLY SOAKING INTO THE SANDY SOIL.  

REPORTS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT AND TOWN OFFICIALS INDICATE NO PROBLEMS 

OR ANY HIGH WATER. 



SINCE THE RAIN WAS SOAKING IN...AND SINCE THE NEXT BATCH OF STORMS 

IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE NO MORE THAN ONE INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAIN THIS 

EVENING...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

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