Radar estimated rainfall
From the Doppler radar out of Duluth NWS Office, Here is the estimated rainfall from early Monday morning until 8AM CDT this morning. Four to six inches estimated in Douglas County in northwest Wisconsin.
AT 651 AM CDT...DOUGLAS COUNTY WISCONSIN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORTED THAT NUMEROUS ROADS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY WERE UNDER WATER
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DUE TO FLASH FLOODING. STATE HIGHWAY 35...APPROXIMATELY 19 MILES
SOUTH OF SUPERIOR WAS REPORTED TO BE CLOSED DUE TO WATER OVER THE
ROAD. ALSO...COUNTY ROAD W SOUTH OF DEWEY AT THE NEMADJI RIVER WAS
REPORTED WASHED OUT. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE AS MUCH AS 4 TO 6
INCHES HAS FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY LAST NIGHT AND THIS
MORNING.
Here's a great view with the infrared of NOAA satellite image from daybreak. Notice the overnight convection over northwest Wisconsin and the new cluster of thunderstorms that would race across southern Minnesota this morning.
Follow the storm reports this morning out of the Chanhassen NWS Office.
Branches down between 730AM and 810AM in portions of Stearns County; Avon to St. Joseph.
0805 AM TSTM WND GST ST CLOUD 45.55N 94.17W
08/02/2011 M63 MPH STEARNS MN MESONET
Storms moving through northern Metro into west central Wisconsin through mid morning.
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