Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

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Our latest deluge is focused on southern Minnesota through Saturday morning. Between 2 and 5 inches of rain fell across southwestern and south-central Minnesota through Friday morning. (See the map above.)

The torrential rainfall is causing flooding from southwestern Minnesota through Mankato to the Rochester area.

A flash flood warning is in effect for Rochester and surrounding areas until 5: 30 p.m. Friday. Another 1 to 3 inches of rain may fall across southeastern Minnesota.

The latest forecast model trends Friday afternoon focus the heaviest rainfall across southeast Minnesota south of the Twin Cities. 

Below is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s High-Resolution Rapid  Refresh model run from 7 p.m. Friday through 7 a.m. Saturday.

Multi-inch rainfall totals favor southeastern Minnesota and northern Iowa through Saturday morning.

NOAA’s High-Resolution Rapid Refresh model favors less than an inch of rainfall for most of the Twin Cities into Saturday:

 continues for southern Minnesota through Saturday afternoon:

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Another shot of heavy rainfall is falling across southern Minnesota.

Twin Cities National Weather Service office

NOAA HRRR model between 7 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday

Flood warnings in southern Minnesota: Heaviest rains south of the Twin Cities into Saturday

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