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SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

226 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2001



...SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN BENTON...HICKORY...

WESTERN CAMDEN...AND NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTIES UNTIL 600 AM...



...THIS EXPANDS THE ADVISORY TO INCLUDE ALL OF HICKORY...WESTERN

CAMDEN...AND NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTIES...



AT 220 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SPRINGFIELD INDICATED

A CLUSTER OF HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS FROM FROM CAMDENTON

TO BUFFALO TO PLEASANT HOPE. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15

MPH.



RADAR INDICATES THAT 1.5 TO 3.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER

MUCH OF THE ADVISORY AREAS SINCE 11 PM. THIS WILL LEAD TO THE

FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS NEAR STREAMS...CREEKS...DITCHES...AND

OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW

WATER CROSSINGS MAY OCCUR.



OTHER SCATTERED STORMS EXTEND FROM THE TRUMAN LAKE AREA NORTHWEST

INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. ALTHOUGH A GRADUAL WEAKENING TREND

IS EXPECTED WITH THIS SECOND AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...THEY ARE

EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST PRODUCING ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IN THE

ADVISORY AREA. IF ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURS...THE

ADVISORY MAY BE UPGRADED TO A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOME OR ALL

OF THESE COUNTIES.



IF TRAVELING THROUGH THIS AREA TONIGHT...USE EXTREME CAUTION. POMME

DE TERRE RIVER...TURKEY CREEK...DEER CREEK...STARKS CREEK...AND THE

LITTLE NIANGUA RIVER WILL SEE SIGNIFICANT RISES. IF CAMPING...MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER

COVERS THE ROADWAY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT SINCE IT IS

HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF HIGH AND RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER.

USE CAUTION IN AND AROUND STREAMS...CREEKS OR DRAINAGE DITCHES.



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