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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

949 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  TEXAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI



* UNTIL 145 AM CDT



* AT 940 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...EXTENDING

  FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF LICKING...TO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLOW     

  SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER     

  RADAR ESTIMATED THAT RAIN WAS FALLING AT THE RATE OF 2 TO 3 INCHES

  AN HOUR. TOTAL RAINFALL...SO FAR...WAS ESTIMATED TO RANGE FROM

  2 TO 3.5 INCHES. THIS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL...WILL CAUSE 

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

  FLOODING...OVER TEXAS 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...HOUSTON...LICKING...AND RAYMONDVILLE.



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 3759 9225 3707 9225 3707 9168 3741 9167

          3741 9178 3759 9178



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