Flooding

Flash Flood Warning (Buena Vista, Cherokee, Plymouth, Sioux, Clay and O’Brien) until 8:30pm

BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
326 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR…
NORTHERN BUENA VISTA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA
NORTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA
PLYMOUTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA
SOUTHEASTERN SIOUX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA
SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA
SOUTHERN O’BRIEN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 318 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. AN
ADDITIONAL TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE…LE
MARS…AKRON…ALBERT CITY…AURELIA…CHEROKEE…CLEGHORN…
CRAIG…GREENVILLE…LARRABEE…LINN GROVE…MARATHON…MARCUS…
MERRILL…PAULLINA…PETERSON…REMSEN…SIOUX RAPIDS…STRUBLE…
SUTHERLAND…TRUESDALE AND WEBB.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNED
AREA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS…COUNTRY ROADS…AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

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LAT…LON 4272 9493 4261 9653 4263 9651 4271 9663
4273 9663 4275 9664 4278 9662 4279 9659
4283 9658 4284 9655 4289 9654 4290 9652
4310 9491

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