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Flood — Scott, MN

Mar 20, 2010

Accumulating snowfall across the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains was extensive during the 2009/2010 winter with snowfall water equivalent amounts across the Minnesota River Valley as high as six inches. Across the Mississippi River Valley and the Crow, snowfall water equivalent amounts were between three and five inches. ||The winter had very little melting on the snow cover and therefore, once temperatures in March started to rise and melt the snow cover, there was nearly three to six inches

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 219988). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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