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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO

539 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2001



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

WYANDOTTE...JOHNSON...CLAY...PLATTE AND NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES

UNTIL 830 PM CDT...



AT 539 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...NUMEROUS 

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE RUNNING 

FROM OLATHE THROUGH KANSAS CITY KANSAS...GLADSTONE TO KEARNEY. 

INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND OVER THE 

SAME AREAS WHICH ALREADY RECEIVED SOME HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL 

AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH 9 PM.



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

OLATHE...SHAWNEE...OVERLAND PARK...KANSAS CITY KANSAS...KANSAS CITY 

MISSOURI...GLADSTONE...PLATTE CITY...KEARNEY...LIBERTY...NORTH KANSAS

CITY...INDEPENDENCE...AND PARKVILLE.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE 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. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



JULY

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