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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO EXPIRATION

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO

405 AM CDT SAT AUG 25 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR 

LEAVENWORTH...WYANDOTTE...JOHNSON...PLATTE...CLAY AND JACKSON COUNTIES 

UNTIL 800 AM CDT...



AT 405 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...A LARGE AREA 

OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUING TO 

MOVE EAST OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA. SINCE MIDNIGHT...ONE TO TWO INCHES

OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS MOST OF THE THE METRO AREA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS

WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 8 OR 9 AM WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE 

HALF TO ONE INCH...WHICH WILL AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OVERWHELM 

STORM DRAINS...THUS KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM THESE AREAS. 

ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS 

AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



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.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



LAT...LON 3875 9463 3887 9460 3884 9413 3921 9427

          3940 9433 3946 9461 3952 9467 3950 9501

          3942 9491 3941 9517 3922 9518 3901 9518





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