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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1146 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2001



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

NEWTON...BARRY...MCDONALD...LAWRENCE AND JASPER COUNTIES UNTIL 500 AM

CST...



AT 1142 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN 

AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA.  THIS ACTIVITY 

WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR 

ESTIMATES...INDICATED THAT RAINFALL RATES OF A HALF INCH TO THREE 

QUARTERS OF AN INCH PER HOUR...WERE COMMON ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST 

MISSOURI.  RAINFALL TOTALS OF TWO TO AS MUCH AS THREE INCHES ARE 

EXPECTED BEFORE THIS ACTIVITY ENDS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.



HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY

ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT

WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... MONETT...MOUNT VERNON...AURORA...

CASSVILLE...EXETER...FAIRVIEW...MARIONVILLE...PIERCE CITY...PURDY...

VERONA AND WHEATON.



AT 1130 PM...LOCAL MEDIA CONTACTS REPORTED THAT LOW WATER CROSSINGS 

IN STONE COUNTY WERE BEGINNING TO FLOOD.  IF CONDITIONS WORSEN 

ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA...THE ADVISORY WILL BE UPGRADED TO A FLASH 

FLOOD WARNING.



MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO

CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS IF WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON

FOOT.



LAT...LON 3651 9460 3653 9407 3653 9360 3729 9364

          3733 9462



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