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Flash Flood — Dakota, MN

Jun 14, 2012

Thunderstorms developed early Thursday morning across North Dakota, and moved southeast across west-central Minnesota, and eventually across central and east central Minnesota by the afternoon. As thunderstorms redeveloped during the afternoon and evening across portions of the southern metro area, flash flooding became a concern with the hardest hit areas from Northfield to Cannon Falls and the eastern Minnesota border.||The morning and afternoon storms produced mainly large hail around the met

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 381945). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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