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URBAN/SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

404 AM CDT FRI OCT 5 2001



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

NEWTON COUNTY UNTIL 700 AM CDT...



AT 400 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE 

AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. 

THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL 

COMBINE WITH LOCAL TERRAIN EFFECTS TO PRODUCE RAPID PONDING OF WATER 

ON STREETS...ESPECIALLY IN THE NEOSHO AREA. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO 

INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT TODAY...ALTHOUGH THE 

HEAVIEST RAIN SHOULD OCCUR WITHIN THE NEXT 3 TO 4 HOURS.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER 

DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS IN AND AROUND THE NEOSHO AREA.



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

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

ROADWAY. 



LAT...LON 3705 9463 3674 9462 3676 9406 3705 9408



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