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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL

725 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR EFFINGHAM...CUMBERLAND 

...CRAWFORD...CLARK...JASPER COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT...



AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

HEAVY RAINS HAS SUBSIDED BUT FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN 

ILLINOIS. 



JASPER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED ROUTE 49 NEAR YALE WAS STILL CLOSED. 

ROUTE 33 WAS REDUCED TO ONE LANE BECAUSE OF HIGH WATER AND NUMEROUS 

RURAL ROADS ARE STILL CLOSED. 



FLOODING WAS SUSIDING IN OTHER LOCATIONS OF CLARK...CRAWFORD AND 

EFFINGHAM COUNTIES BUT SOME RURAL ROADWAYS COULD STILL BE CLOSED. 



MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR

VEHICLE INTO AREAS IN WHICH WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. IT ONLY TAKES A

FOOT OR TWO OF WATER TO WASH MOST VEHICLES AWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN

RISING WATERS SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO JUDGE HOW

MUCH WATER COVERS ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.



REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE NEAREST LAW

ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY

TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

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KETCHAM 

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