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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

933 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SHANNON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI



* UNTIL 130 AM CDT



* AT 929 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   

  A THUNDERSTORM...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...CENTERED 6 MILES WEST  

  OF EMINENCE...OR 31 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOUSTON. THIS STORM IS      

  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT RAINFALL 

  RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR...WERE OCCURRING OVER THE SOUTHERN

  HALF OF SHANNON COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT STORM TOTAL RAINFALL

  SO FAR...RANGED FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL

  CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS

  OVER SHANNON COUNTY.



* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE

  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH

  FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH       

  FLOODING INCLUDE...BIRCH TREE...EMINENCE...AND WINONA.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE 

BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



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 3714 9166 3690 9166 3688 9125 3709 9123

          3711 9115 3712 9106 3717 9113 3727 9119

          3740 9120 3741 9164



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