... Flood Watch in effect through Tuesday evening...
The National Weather Service in Grand Forks has issued a
* Flood Watch for portions of Minnesota and North Dakota...
including the following areas... in Minnesota... Clay... east
Becker... east Marshall... east Otter Tail... east Polk... Grant...
Hubbard... Kittson... Lake
of The Woods... Mahnomen... Norman... North Beltrami... North
Clearwater... Pennington... Red Lake... Roseau... south
Beltrami... South Clearwater... Wadena... west Becker... west
Marshall... west Otter Tail... west Polk and Wilkin. In North
Dakota... Barnes... Benson... Cass... Cavalier... eastern
Walsh... eddy... Grand Forks... Griggs... Nelson...
Pembina... Ramsey... Ransom... Richland... Sargent... Steele...
Towner... Traill and western Walsh.
* Through Tuesday evening
* many areas have received two to three inches of rain in the past
few days. An additional 1 to 2 inches of rain is possible today
and tomorrow on top of already saturated ground. Some overland
areal flooding is possible in low lying areas.
Precautionary/preparedness actions...
A Flood Watch means there is a potential for flooding based on
current forecasts.
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible
flood warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be
prepared to take action should flooding develop.
414 am CDT Mon may 20 2013
The Flood Watch continues for
the Wild Rice river (mn) at Hendrum
* from Thursday afternoon until further notice.
* At 3:30 am Monday the stage was 9.7 feet.
* Minor flooding is possible.
* Flood stage is 20.0 feet.
* Forecast... flood stage may be reached by Thursday early afternoon.
Lat... Lon 4734 9683 4724 9684 4715 9673 4722 9653 4732 9656
daily 7 PM CDT/6 PM CST forecast stage in feet:
date Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat sun Mon
(month/day) 05/21 05/22 05/23 05/24 05/25 05/26 05/27
Wild Rice river
Hendrum 10.8 15.2 18.5 20.2 19.7 18.1 16.9
