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URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

928 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2001



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

BOURBON...CEDAR...CHEROKEE...MORGAN...NEWTON...CRAWFORD...ST.

CLAIR...BARRY...MCDONALD...GREENE...POLK...DADE...VERNON...DALLAS...

WESTERN CAMDEN...BARTON...LAWRENCE...STONE...HICKORY...WESTERN

CHRISTIAN...BENTON AND JASPER COUNTIES UNTIL 1215 PM CST...



...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES TODAY FOR ALL OF THE MISSOURI 

OZARKS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...



AT 925 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF 

SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 

MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.



DOPPLER RADAR AND WEATHER OBSERVERS REPORT THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 3 

INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA...RESULTING IN 

FLOODING OF MANY STREAMS...CREEKS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI 

AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF 

RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA BY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL 

FURTHER AGGRIVATE THE FLOODING SITUATION.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND COUNTRY ROADS. MOST FLOODING DEATHS OCCUR 

IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW 

WATER CROSSINGS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.



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