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RECORD EVENT REPORT 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
516 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007

...WETTEST AUGUST ON RECORD IN SIOUX CITY IOWA...

RAINFALL TODAY AT SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT IN SIOUX CITY IOWA TOTALED 
1.40 INCHES. THIS PUSHES THE MONTHLY TOTAL TO 8.65 INCHES...MAKING 
THIS THE WETTEST AUGUST ON RECORD AND EASILY SURPASSES THE RECORD OF 
7.75 INCHES IN AUGUST OF 1951. FOUR DAYS THIS MONTH HAVE HAD 
RAINFALL OF AN INCH OR MORE...

1.19 INCHES ON THE  4TH
1.33 INCHES ON THE 20TH   
2.71 INCHES ON THE 22ND 
1.40 INCHES ON THE 23RD

WITH MORE THAN A WEEK TO GO IN THE MONTH...ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL 
ADD TO THE AUGUST RECORD. THE WETTEST MONTH ON RECORD IS 11.78 
INCHES SET IN MAY 1903.  

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SHEEHAN