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URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1108 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2001



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

TEXAS AND SOUTHWESTERN PHELPS COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CDT...



AT 1100 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES 

NORTHEAST OF FORT LEONARD WOOD TO LICKING TO NEAR CLEAR SPRING. THE 

THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH AT 5 MPH.  DOPPLER 

RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL HAS EXCEEDED 3 INCHES IN A SMALL AREA JUST 

WEST OF EDGAR SPRINGS OR NEAR THE TOWN OF FLAT. BETWEEN 2 AND 3 

INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTY 

INCLUDING THE HOUSTON AREA.



AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN ARE EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF 

THE ADVISORY AREA. THE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY 

HEAVY RAINFALL. IF MORE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURS IN 

SOUTHWESTERN PHELPS COUNTY...THE ADVISORY WILL LIKELY BE UPGRADED TO 

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING. 



RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING TO 

OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 



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. PEOPLE ON AREA RIVERS AND CREEKS SHOULD BE AWARE OF RAPIDLY 

RISING WATER.



LAT...LON 3709 9167 3739 9168 3778 9184 3789 9202

          3735 9211 3709 9203



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