A downpour of rain Thursday night hit Mitchell, flooding city streets and dropping 1.11 inches of rain in about a two-hour span.
Between 10 p.m. and midnight, sheets of rain were dropped on the city. Early Friday morning, another six-hundredths fell in Mitchell to bring the total amount in the 24-hour span to 1.17 inches, but more much-needed precipitation is forecast to come.
The National Weather Service says showers and thunderstorms are likely before 3 p.m. in Mitchell, with a 60 percent chance of precipitation and new rainfall amounts between a tenth and a quarter of an inch.
Tonight, there's a chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight and another chance between midnight and 4 a.m.
A corridor along Interstate 90 from Brule County east to the Minnesota-South Dakota border is recognized on the U.S. Drought Monitor as an area that's abnormally dry, the weakest category of drought on the five-stage drought monitor.
