July 3rd Southwest Minnesota Flash Flooding

Overview

Very slow moving and training thunderstorms brought very heavy rainfall to portions of southwest Minnesota the morning of July 3rd. Some locations picked up several inches of rain in the matter of just a couple hours. Numerous roads were flooded or impassible due to the flash flooding, including in the city of Marshall. The Lake Shetek area was also hit particularly hard with the lake swelling out of its banks. This prompted the issuance of a Flash Flood Emergency.

Street flooding in Marshall, MN the morning of July 3rd

(Picture Courtesy of Tim Moline)

Flooding
Photos & Video
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Rainfall

Flooding

Hydrographs


Hydrograph of the Redwood River near Marshall	Hydrograph of the Redwood River near Russell	Hydrograph of the West Fork of the Des Moines River near Avoca

Photos & Video:

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Lake Sarah, MN (Picture Courtesy Nick Ratzloff)	Tracy, MN (Picture Courtesy Misten Long)	Lake Sarah, MN (Picture Courtesy Blaise Keller)	Marshall, MN (Picture Courtesy of @jamesjr_25)

Radar:

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Radar loop from 7 pm of July 2nd thru 1 am of July 3rd	Radar loop from 1 am to 7 am of July 3rd	Radar loop from 7 am to 1 pm of July 3rd	GOES-16 IR Satellite Imagery

Rain Reports

Observed Rainfall Reports (in inches) From Across SW MN

Lake Shetek	8.61
Ghent	6.50
Marshall	4.81
Tracy	4.52
Marshall 0.6 S	4.02
Slayton	2.33
Minneota	1.80
Ivanhoe 5.7 E	1.71
Pipestone	0.72
Adrian 1.5 NW	0.50

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