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Flood — Grundy, IA

Mar 14, 2019

Reports from the 13h through the 19th in this entry. ||A relatively deep and widespread snowpack existed across the region during early to mid March. Many areas in central and northern Iowa had around a foot to two feet of snow on the ground, along with many areas in upstream river basins in Minnesota and the Dakotas having similar or deeper snowpacks on the ground. Additionally, with the below normal temperatures throughout the majority of the 2019 year to date, soils were frozen to depths of a

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 813085). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Grundy, IA

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