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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO

712 AM CDT WED JUL 11 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN



* URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  ATCHISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS



* UNTIL 100 PM CDT



* AT 707 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...

 THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY CONTINUE TO TRACK ACROSS

 ATCHISON AND BROWN COUNTIES.  RADAR ESTIMATES THAT TWO TO

 THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS EXTREME WESTERN PORTION 

 OF ATCHISON COUNTY.  



* ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO RAPID RISES...AND THE THREAT

  FOR FLOODING...ON THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND CREEKS



  THE DELAWARE RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS AND COUNTRY ROADS...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.



AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS

IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER

GROUND IMMEDIATELY.



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