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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND

712 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 2009



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  GRAND FORKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...

  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GRAND FORKS...

  EXTREME EAST CENTRAL NELSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA...

  NORTHWESTERN POLK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA...



* UNTIL 900 AM CDT SATURDAY



* AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF

  MEKINOCK...OR 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND FORKS. THE STORM         

  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.        

  THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP OVER THE AREA DURING THE 

  EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR 

  ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS OVER. 



* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GRAND FORKS...EAST GRAND

  FORKS...LARIMORE AND TABOR.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR

VEHICLE INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. ONE OR TWO FEET OF WATER WILL

FLOAT MOST CARS DOWNSTREAM.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING

ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE.



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LAT...LON 4804 9790 4819 9790 4818 9715 4815 9651

      4781 9650 4781 9787



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