Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Grand Forks, ND

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
1050 AM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR GRIGGS...STEELE AND
   NORTHERN BARNES COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA..

...VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES OVER THE WARNED AREA...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN REMAIN OVER GRIGGS AND STEELE
COUNTIES AND FLOODING IS LIKELY IN THOSE COUNTIES AND COMMUNITIES
DOWN STREAM.

AT 1040 AM CDT AN UNCONFIRMED READING OF OVER 10 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE
FINLEY NORTH DAKOTA AREA WAS RECIEVED BY THIS OFFICE.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF YOU AREA IN THE
AFFECTED AREA.  PERSONS IN THE TRAILL AND  GRAND FORKS COUNTIES SHOULD
BE MAKING PREPARATIONS TO ALSO MOVE TO SAFETY.
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THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL REACH
TRAILL AND GRAND FORKS  COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER
MUCH OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...AND WERE DEVELOPING
OVER SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

MOVEMENT OF ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST ATL 15 TO
20 MILES AN HOUR.

D MORIN

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR FLOODING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
310 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993

...FLOOD WARNING ENDED AT 300 PM CDT GRIGGS...STEELE...TRAILL AND GRAND
FORKS COUNTIES...

...FLOOD WARNING EXPIRES AT 415 PM CDT FOR CASS COUNTY...

HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED INTO NORTHWEST MINNESOTA AS OF 300 PM CDT...
HOWEVER MORE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST NORTH
DAKOTA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.  ALTHOUGH THE FLOODING RAINS HAVE
TEMPORARLY ENDED...FLOODING WAS REPORTED WIDESPREAD ACROSS GRIGGS..
STEELE AND PART OF CASS COUNTIES ESPECIALLY IN OPEN COUNTY AND LOW SPOTS
NEAR RIVERS AND STREAMS.

FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ESPECIALLY OVER EASTERN GRIGGS...MUCH OF STEELE
AND PARTS OF CASS COUNTY.  IN THE WEST FARGO AREA AND HARWOOD AREA OF
CASS COUNTY FLOODING IS REPORTED WITH SOME EVACUATIONS UNDERWAY.

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND
SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA ARE FORECAST TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA BY LATE AFTERNOON AND THROUGH THE EVENING.  ANY RAINFALL
WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING ESPECIALLY IN RURAL CASS COUNTY...
HOWEVER URBAN FLOODING IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO AND T.V. AS WELL AS NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
EWENS

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
350 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CASS COUNTY EXPIRES AT 415 PM CDT...

...ATMOSPHERE SETTING UP FOR NEXT ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN...

AT 326 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE DEVELOPING
OVER NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND BEGINNING TO CROSS INTO SOUTHEAST
NORTH DAKOTA.

STORMS EXTENDED FROM ABERDEEN SOUTH DAKOTA TO THE LIDGERWOOD AREA OF
EXTREME SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA.

MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED NEAR LIDGERWOOD IN THE NEARBY TOWNS
OF MILNOR AND RUTLAND.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
MOVE TOWARD ALREADY FLOODED AREAS OF SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA OVER THE
NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.  THE STORMS WILL REACH THE FARGO/MOORHEAD AREA
BETWEEN 600 AND 630 PM CDT.  THE INFLUENCE OF THE THESE STORMS...THE
VERY HEAVY RAIN IN PARTICILAR...WILL BE FELT AS FAR WEST OF AS
VALLEY CITY NORTH DAKOTA AT THAT TIME.

MANY ROADWAYS IN OUR AREA ARE UNDER WATER.  DO NOT VENTURE OUT UNLESS
THERE IS AN EMERGENCY.

STAY ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLITY OF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IF YOU ARE IN (A
LOW LYING AREA OR NEAR A STREAM OR RIVER.  YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE
PLACE NOW.  CHECK YOUR BASEMENT SUMP PUMPS AND DRAINAGE AROUND YOUR
HOME TO BE SURE IT IS IN GOOD WORKING ORDER.

D MORIN