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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO

214 AM CDT MON SEP 17 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR SOUTHERN

WYANDOTTE AND CLAY COUNTIES UNTIL 315 AM CDT...



AT 214 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...THE BACK 

EDGE OF A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS

LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF EXCELSIOR 

SPRINGS TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AVONDALE TO 10 MILES WEST OF BONNER 

SPRINGS...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF 

KANSAS CITY TO 4 MILES WEST OF KANSAS CITY TO 10 MILES EAST OF 

LAWRENCE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.  THE RAIN WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH

ACROSS LEAVENWORTH...CLAY AND PLATTE COUNTIES...BUT EXCESSIVE

RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE.



IN CLAY COUNTY...HIGHWAY 92 AT 2ND CREEK WAS IMPASSABLE DUE TO HIGH

WATER. IN PLATTE COUNTY...HIGHWAY 45 AT DRY LAKE...JUST SOUTH

OF FARLEY...WAS DOWN TO ONE LANE DUE TO HIGH WATER.  IN LEAVENWORTH

COUNTY...PONDING OF WATER ON HIGHWAYS AND BENEATH UNDERPASSES 

CONTINUES.



MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS

BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.



LAT...LON 3943 9422 3933 9444 3910 9468 3907 9494

          3901 9513 3905 9487 3904 9462 3911 9461

          3916 9451 3913 9445 3921 9432 3923 9432

          3924 9427 3921 9422



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