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Aug 24, 2007 7:06 am US/Central

Rainfall Sets State Record In SE Minn.

Slideshow: Flooding In SE Minn.

Minneapolis (AP) ― Weather officials say the rains that flooded southeastern Minnesota last weekend set a state record for rainfall during a 24-hour period.

Weather watchers thought the record had been set earlier -- but now it's official.

And the old record was smashed by more than four inches.

The National Weather Service gauge in Germain Davison's farmyard a mile south of Hokah had 15.1 inches in it when he measured it at 8 a.m. Sunday.

The previous record, set July 22, 1972, at Fort Ripley, was 10.84 inches.

It took a while to get the record approved. The measurement has to come from someone in the Weather Service's network. The observer's equipment must be checked by Weather Service personnel, and the nomination has to be forwarded to the Extreme Records Committee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a vote.

In this case, the vote was unanimous.

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