A flood alert was issued for Mountain View County, Red Deer County and Parts of Southern Alberta.The province issued the emergency alert at 2:59 p.m. Thursday.
The province also provided an update Thursday afternoon on flooding and flood watches and warnings in Southern Alberta.
As of 2 p.m. Thursday, Evan Friesenhan of Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development said there is only one flood watch for the Red Deer River basin,the Little Red Deer River, adding the river's water level is currently falling.
Steven Carr, director of central operations, Alberta Emergency Management Agency, said their chief concern at this point is the Blood Reserve and the Town of Claresholm.
Carr said about 130 homes on the Blood Tribe have been affected by flooding.
Across the province 500 homes have been affected, including homes on the Blood Tribe and in Lethbridge.
Most of that is due to overland flooding and sewer back up, he said, because of the amount of rainfall, rather than from river flow.
Friesenhan said current predictions have the Oldman River, which is still rising, peaking at 2100 cubic metres per second in Lethbridge Friday morning, and the South Sasketchewan rising another 2.4 metres to peak in Medicine Hat at an estimated 2700 cubic metres per second Saturday mid-days
A flood watch has been issued for Mosquito Creek in the Oldman River basin. A high Streamflow advisory has been issued for Little Bow River in the Oldman River basin. The flood warning remains in effect for the South Saskatchewan, Waterton (including Waterton Lake), Belly Rivers and Willow Creek.
The flood watch and high stream flow advisories are still in effect for streams in the Bow, Oldman, Milk and Red Deer River basins. The high streamflow advisory for the rivers and streams flowing out of the Cypress Hills has ended.
Rivers and streams out of the Crowsnest River have been downgraded to a flood watch.
The Municipal District of Taber and the town of Magrath declared local states of emergency Thursday about 10:45 a.m., bringing the total number of Alberta communities under a local state of emergency to twelve as of 2 p.m., June 19.
