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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

910 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR COLE...

MONITEAU...BOONE AND CALLAWAY COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM CDT...



AT 905 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MAINLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN OVER CENTRAL 

MISSOURI.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY END FROM 

WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION LATER THIS MORNING.



LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE REPORTING CREEKS OUT OF THEIR 

BANKS CAUSING LOW WATER BRIDGES TO BE IMPASSIBLE.  IN ADDITION... 

SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN COLUMBIA IN THE PAST 

HOUR.  THIS FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO SLOWLY SUBSIDE THE REST OF THE 

MORNING AS THE RAIN COMES TO AN END.



REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING IN AREAS AROUND FULTON...COLUMBIA... 

JEFFERSON CITY AND CALIFORNIA THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO.  BE ESPECIALLY 

CAUTIOUS IN LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOODING.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. UNDERPASSES AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO

FLOODING DURING TIMES OF HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE AVOIDED. IF YOUR

VEHICLE DOES STALL IN RISING WATERS...ABANDON IT AND MOVE TO HIGHER

GROUND.



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BRITT

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