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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

1129 AM CST MON JAN 29 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR

MONTGOMERY...AUDRAIN...COLE...BOONE...OSAGE...MONITEAU...CALLAWAY AND

GASCONADE COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CST...



AT 1125 AM CST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY 

RAINFALL ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 

TO 2 INCHES WERE COMMON ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI. ISOLATED 2.00 TO 

2.50 INCHES AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN BOONE COUNTY.  THE 

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI IN COLUMBIA REPORTED 2.20 INCHES AND 2.54 

INCHES HAS BEEN REPORTED IN CENTRALIA MISSOURI. 



AT 1100 AM CST...THE MISSOURI HIGHWAY PATROL AND BOONE COUNTY 

SHERIFF REPORTED THAT HIGHWAY E IN NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA BOONE 

COUNTY IS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. 



SOME CITIES AND TOWNS AFFECTED BY THIS ADVISORY INCLUDE...



COLUMBIA..JEFFERSON CITY..CENTRALIA..MEXICO..FULTON..

CALIFORNIA..LINN..MONTGOMERY CITY AND OWENSVILLE. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE WIDESPREAD RAINFALL WILL CAUSE LOCAL 

FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. 

ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS 

AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. UNDERPASSES AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO

FLOODING DURING TIMES OF HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE AVOIDED. IF YOUR

VEHICLE DOES STALL IN RISING WATERS...ABANDON IT AND MOVE TO HIGHER

GROUND.



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