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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
420 PM CDT Mon Jun 24 2024

The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has extended the

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  A Dam Breach on the Blue Earth River below Rapidan Dam in...
  Central Blue Earth County in south central Minnesota...

* Until 1030 AM CDT Tuesday.

* At 420 PM CDT, water continues to erode one bank of the Rapidan 
  Dam causing the Blue Earth River to bypass the dam uncontrolled.

  HAZARD...Flash flooding from the breach of Rapidan Dam.

  SOURCE...Dam operator.

  IMPACT...Flooding of areas downstream from the Rapidan Dam
           along the Blue Earth River.

This includes the following streams and drainages...
  Blue Earth River, Le Sueur River and Minneopa Creek.
Flooding is occurring along the Blue Earth River.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If you are in low lying areas below the Rapidan Dam you should move 
to higher ground immediately.

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LAT...LON 4412 9413 4414 9411 4414 9409 4414 9407
      4413 9405 4412 9404 4412 9405 4412 9406
      4412 9407 4412 9408 4411 9410 4410 9411
      4409 9410 4409 9412 4409 9413 4410 9414

FLASH FLOOD...OBSERVED
DAM FAILURE...OCCURRING

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