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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY

700 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM CDT 

FOR SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...



AT 650 PM...STATE AND COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED 

NUMEROUS ROADS UNDER WATER OVER SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY...INCLUDING 

PARTS OF HGHWAY 67 SOUTH...HIGHWAY 160...AND M HIGHWAY.



AT 700 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A MARKED DECREASE IN THE 

INTENSITY OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY. 

HOWEVER...MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF POPLAR BLUFF. 

IF THIS ACTIVITY HOLD TOGETHER AS IT DRIFTS SLOWLY SOUTH...AN 

ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL IN THE ADVISORY AREA THROUGH

745 PM.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS 

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW 

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. REMEMBER...NEVER DRIVE YOUR 

VEHICLE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE ROAD 

BENEATH MAY HAVE ERODED AWAY.



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