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URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1002 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001



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

...POLK COUNTY...UNTIL 200 AM CDT...



AT 959 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...CENTERED OVER BOLIVAR.

HOWEVER THE STORMS COVERED MUCH OF POLK COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE

MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED...THAT RAIN

WAS FALLING AT THE RATE OF 1 TO 1.5 INCHES AN HOUR. ESTIMATED

TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS...RANGED UP TO 1.5 INCHES. AT 945 PM CDT...

MINOR STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN BOLIVAR. ADDITIONAL HEAVY

RAINFALL...WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF STREETS. FLOODING

OF SMALL CREEKS OR STREAMS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS ARE LIKELY.



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE

WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE MINOR

FLOODING TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER

CROSSINGS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...

BOLIVAR.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND 

ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



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.



LAT...LON 3743 9362 3742 9321 3772 9319 3773 9322

          3779 9320 3780 9361



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