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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1120 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HOWELL...TEXAS...PHELPS AND DENT COUNTIES

CONTINUED UNTIL 1245 AM...



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SHANNON AND OREGON COUNTIES CONTINUED

UNTIL 130 AM...



...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH

CENTRAL MISSOURI TONIGHT...



AT 1115 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD

CONTINUED TO INDICATE AN AREA OF RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS

SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM JOPLIN TO BOLIVAR AND OSAGE BEACH. THE

STRONGER STORMS WERE INDICATED FROM SPRINGFIELD TO ROARING RIVER

STATE PARK BETWEEN CASSVILLE AND GALENA.



CALLS TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATE NO SERIOUS FLOODING RELATED

PROBLEMS OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI THUS FAR.  HOWEVER FLOODING

CONTINUED ON HOWELL CREEK IN THE WEST PLAINS AREA.  RADAR

INDICATED THAT RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF NEAR ONE INCH HAVE BEEN WIDESPREAD

ACROSS THE AREA WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS NEAR 2 INCHES.  HEAVIER

AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES WERE ESTIMATED FROM NORTHERN WEBSTER...

WRIGHT...AND TEXAS COUNTIES NORTH INTO SOUTHEAST PHELPS COUNTY.



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH WILL BE LIKELY

OVERNIGHT AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE OZARKS.

A FEW AREAS WILL RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVERNIGHT

WHICH COULD RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING.  THEREFORE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH

REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS SOUTHEAST OF A JOPLIN TO ROLLA LINE.



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