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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1050 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHERN LACLEDE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI



* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT



* AT 1044 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  

  THUNDERSTORMS HAD PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR LEBANON...

  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 2

  AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD QUICKLY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA.



* WHILE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED NORTHEAST OF THE WARNED AREA... 

  RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO

  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING 

  INCLUDE...LEBANON AND INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN CONWAY AND LEBANON.



AT 1045 PM...LACLEDE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT FLOODING 

WAS OCCURRING ALONG INTERSTATE 44 NEAR PHILLIPSBURG...HIGHWAY 5 NEAR 

LEBANON...AND CC HIGHWAY NEAR INTERSTATE 44.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE

UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS

SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



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