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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI

737 AM CDT WED SEP 15 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR

MOWER...FILLMORE...WINONA AND DODGE COUNTIES...



AT 7 AM...NUMEROUS ROADS WERE CLOSED IN THE LE ROY MINNESOTA AREA...

WHICH IS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUSTIN. ALTHOUGH 3.11 INCHES OF 

RAIN HAD FALLEN IN LE ROY...CONSIDERABLY MORE HAD FALLEN JUST NORTH 

OF TOWN ON THE HEADWATERS OF THE UPPER IOWA RIVER.



AT 714 AM...AT LEAST 4 MAJOR STREETS WERE UNDER WATER IN SPRING 

VALLEY MINNESOTA...WHERE ALMOST 7 INCHES OF RAIN HAD BEEN REPORTED.



UNOFFICIAL REPORTS FROM THE BLOOMING PRAIRIE AREA...ON THE DODGE

AND STEELE COUNTY LINE HAVE BEEN AS HIGH AS 11.50 INCHES.



THERE IS LIKELY HIGH WATER AND FLASH FLOODING IN NUMEROUS COUNTIES 

ACROSS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING WILL CERTAINLY 

BE UNDER WATER SO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH IT. TURN AROUND.



WHILE RAINFALL IS MORE SPOTTY EARLY THIS MORNING...OFF AND ON 

INTENSE SHOWERS MAY BRING ANOTHER QUICK HALF INCH OF RAIN THIS 

MORNING. CONDITIONS SHOULD SLOWLY IMPROVE AS THE DAY WEARS ON.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF CREEKS AND 

STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO 

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUD-SLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. PERSONS IN THE WARNED 

AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY TO AVOID THESE HAZARDS.



LAT...LON 4385 9155 4384 9174 4353 9177 4352 9304

      4385 9275 4385 9305 4419 9304 4419 9268

      4382 9269 4384 9210 4419 9207 4419 9185

      4405 9162 4400 9146



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