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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

831 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT

FOR VERNON...ST. CLAIR...BENTON...MORGAN...MILLER...CAMDEN....

HICKORY...BARTON...DALLAS...LACLEDE...DADE...LAWRENCE...BARRY AND

MCDONALD COUNTIES IN MISSOURI...AND BOURBON COUNTY IN KANSAS.



...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT NORTH OF A BRANSON

TO SALEM LINE...



AT 825 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR

INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM

NEAR ROLLA TO SPRINGFIELD...TO MOUNT VERNON...TO CASSVILLE.

THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS FALLING OVER LAWRENCE AND BARRY COUNTIES

WITH HOURLY RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES.



THE THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING

ACROSS THE OZARKS.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS SINCE LATE AFTERNOON HAVE BEEN

HIGHLY VARIABLE WITH POCKETS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES.  A FEW LOCATIONS

HAVE RECEIVED NEAR 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL. STREET FLOODING WAS

REPORTED AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS EARLY THIS EVENING.



ALTHOUGH THE RAINFALL WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING...

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT.



MOST FLOODING DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE

INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.



IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...ESCAPE RISING WATER BY MOVING DIRECTLY TO

HIGHER GROUND.  DO NOT CAMP OR PARK YOUR VEHICLE ALONG STREAMS AND

WASHES.

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