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ZCZC MSPHMDMSR ALL TTAA00 KMSR DDHHMM HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL FORECAST DISCUSSION NWS NORTH CENTRAL RIVER FORECAST CENTER TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1115 AM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008 ...Precipitation... Mostly light rain fell over southern Illinois...eastern Missouri...western Iowa....southwest Minnesota....the Dakotas and northeast Wisconsin. Most reports were less than a tenth of an inch but ranged up to a third of an inch around St Louis MO and a half inch around Minot ND. Surface low pressure near Valentine NE will dig southeast to near Peoria IL by Sunday morning. Showers and thunderstorms in association with this system will bring half inch or greater amounts to much of the upper Midwest. Sub-basin average amounts around two inches are forecast for parts of Iowa. ...Hydrologic Conditions... Two inches or more of Day one QPF forecast in southern Iowa is expected to cause new minor to moderate flooding on Iowa River-- Wapsipinicon River and Skunk River. It is also expected a rise at Valley City on the Illinois River. Along with expected rises in other tributaries, it would be expecteed that current flooding condition on the Mississippi River would be extended. For additional and more in-depth information concerning river forecasts...precipitation and all hydrometeorological information in the NCRFC area of responsibility...please refer to the NCRFC web page at: http://www.weather.gov/ncrfc Emergency Call Back List: DOH.. SDB.. ACY.. LNE If no response from this list... call the DOH or HIC. $$ ...lne/acy... NNNN