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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

731 AM CDT FRI MAY 11 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES UNTIL 915 AM...

FOR BENTON...ST CLAIR...AND HICKORY COUNTIES...



AT 711 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

THE LEADING EDGE...OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...THAT

EXTENDED FROM HERMITAGE...TO FAIR PLAY...TO LAMAR...AND TO GIRARD.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS

CONFINED TO A 10 MILE WIDE BAND...THAT EXTENDED NORTHWARD FROM THE

LEADING EDGE.



RAINFALL INTENSITY HAD DECREASED IN BENTON...HICKORY...AND ST CLAIR

COUNTIES. HOWEVER MODERATE TO BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE

ACROSS THESE COUNTIES THROUGH 900 AM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL FALL

AT A RATE OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH AN HOUR. RADAR ESTIMATED

THAT UP TO 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER WESTERN BENTON COUNTY...OR

ON THE EASTERN END OF TRUMAN LAKE. OTHER RADAR ESTIMATES SHOWED THAT

UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER NORTHWEST ST CLAIR COUNTY...OR IN

THE APPLETON CITY AREA.



REPORTS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS INDICATED THAT NO MAJOR

FLOODING HAD TAKEN PLACE. HOWEVER RUNOFF WATER WILL CONTINUE TO

CAUSE TEMPORARY RISES IN SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND POSSIBLY

FLOOD LOW WATER CROSSINGS. SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING MAY ALSO

RESULT FROM RUNOFF.



TRAVELERS SHOULD EXCERSISE CAUTION THIS MORNING. IF YOU ENCOUNTER

A FLOODED ROADWAY OR LOW WATER CROSSING...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS

IT...FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.



D.STEINMETZ

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