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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL

1123 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SCOTLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

  CLARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

  LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA

  MCDONOUGH COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  HANCOCK COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS



* UNTIL 330 AM CDT



* AT 1123 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 

  INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER THE   

  WARNED AREA.



* THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING AND MOVING OVER

  PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA...LEADING TO VERY HIGH RAINFALL RATES

  AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF FLASH FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA. THE HEAVIEST

  RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM JUST SOUTH OF MEMPHIS THROUGH KAHOKA...WAYLAND

  AND KEOKUK INTO SANDUSKY...CARTHAGE AND COLMAR AREAS.  A RAINFALL

  REPORT OF 6.23 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 7 PM WAS RECEIVED FROM AUGUSTA

  IN SOUTHWEST HANCOCK COUNTY.  ALTHOUGH NO STREAM FLOODING

  HAS BEEN REPORTED...THE OBSERVER SAID SOME STREETS IN AUGUSTA WERE 

  COVERED BY NEARLY A FOOT OF WATER.  



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. 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.



LAT...LON 4061 9048 4028 9047 4029 9092 4020 9093

          4030 9233 4059 9234



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