Weekend Storms Bring Heavy Rains to Portions of NE South Dakota

Milbank residents in Grant County and others in Northwest Codington County are cleaning up today following heavy rains this weekend that caused flooding.  Ryan Lueck is with the National Weather Service Office in Aberdeen

He says the massive rains were the result of a very moist, slow-moving air mass accompanied by a low-pressure system that moved in and provided the lift

One unofficial report west of Florence pegged the rain at 9 inches with nearly six inches at Milbank and five and half inches at Ortonville, Minnesota.  He says the region is in the clear for now, but that more thunderstorm development is expected Tuesday.  That, he said, is concerning

He says,  because the soils are more saturated in many areas of Northeast South Dakota and Western Minnesota, there are concerns additional flooding could happen if heavy rains redevelop Tuesday.

 

(KXLG)