The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has issued a Flash Flood Watch beginning this evening at 7pm and continuing until 1pm Thursday afternoon (if not cancelled before) for the following counties, Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury [IA] and Cottonwood, Jackson MN, Nobles MN and Dakota NE and Union SD.

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND THIS EVENING. ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT…AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA…EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA…NORTHWEST IOWA AND EXTREME NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.
SOME OF THESE AREAS ALSO RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL LAST SATURDAY EVENING… ESPECIALLY ALONG THE HIGHWAY 60 CORRIDOR CREATING SATURATED GROUND. RAINFALL TOTALS TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING COULD AVERAGE 2 TO 3 INCHES IN THE WATCH AREA…WITH SOME LOCATIONS RECEIVING HEAVIER RAIN.