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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA

1228 AM CDT WED SEP 15 2004



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR EMMET AND PALO ALTO COUNTIES

UNTIL 130 AM CDT...



AT 1224 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER 

NORTHERN PALO ALTO AND SOUTHERN EMMET COUNTIES.  



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE

WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH

FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING

INCLUDE...ESTHERVILLE...EMMETSBURG...ARMSTRONG...AYRSHIRE...CURLEW...

CYLINDER...DOLLIVER...EMMETSBURG MUNICIPAL AIRPORT...ESTHERVILLE

MUNICIPAL AIRPORT...GRAETTINGER...GRUVER AND MALLARD.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO 

HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO

FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



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