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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS

135 AM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR RICHLAND AND SARGENT COUNTIES

UNTIL 730 AM CDT...



AT 124 AM CDT...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WAS OCCURRING 

OVER NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AT 130 AM SUNDAY...AND WAS EXPECTED TO 

MOVE ACROSS THE WARNING AREA DURING THE PRE DAWN HOURS THIS SUNDAY. 

THE RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED COUNTY ROAD 15 FROM GREAT BEND 

TO 1 MILES SOUTH OF GREAT BEND WAS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. ALSO 

SEVERAL SMALL ROADS IN THE HANKINSON AREA WERE UNDER WATER...WITH 

STREET FLOODING REPORTED IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS.



LIDGERWOOD...GWINNER...FORMAN...WYNDMERE AND HANKINSON WILL BE 

AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN. RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIEST RAIN FELL 

SATURDAY EVENING FROM ABERCROMBIE TO SOUTH OF HANKINSON. ANOTHER 

HEAVY RAIN BAND FELL FROM BARNEY TO EAST OF HAVANA AND A THIRD AREA 

WAS SOUTHWEST OF STRAUBVILLE. WITH SATURATED GROUND ANY ADDITIONAL 

RAIN WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING SITUATIONS.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING

ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE.



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