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FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

740 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002



...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF 

SOUTHERN MISSOURI...



THE WATCH INCLUDES AREAS SOUTH OF A NEOSHO...SPRINGFIELD...TO SALEM 

LINE...OR GENERALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44.



THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING MISSOURI COUNTIES...



TEXAS...DENT...GREENE...WEBSTER...WRIGHT...NEWTON...LAWRENCE...

CHRISTIAN...DOUGLAS...HOWELL...SHANNON...MCDONALD...BARRY...STONE...

TANEY...OZARK AND OREGON.



ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WITH LOCALLY 

HEAVIER AMOUNTS COULD RESULT IN FLOODING OVER SOUTHERN MISSOURI.



RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING HAVE GENERALLY RANGED 

FROM ONE HALF TO ONE INCH IN THE WATCH AREA WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER 

AMOUNTS NEAR ONE AND A HALF INCHES NEAR THE ARKANSAS BORDER. 



ANOTHER ROUND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL SPREAD INTO SOUTHERN 

MISSOURI THIS MORNING.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL FALL SOUTH OF A 

BRANSON TO EMINENCE LINE WHERE AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN WILL BE 

POSSIBLE BEFORE NOON.  



FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND LOW 

LYING AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF...ESPECIALLY 

IN TANEY...OZARK...HOWELL...AND SHANNON COUNTIES. 



FLOODING OF LARGER STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO DEVELOP IF HEAVY 

RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE WIDESPREAD. BOATERS AND CAMPERS ALONG 

OZARK RIVERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER LEVELS TODAY 

AND TONIGHT...AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND. 



A FLOOD WATCH MEANS RAPIDLY RISING WATER OR FLOODING IS POSSIBLE 

WITHIN THE WATCH AREA.  STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION 

FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD ON NOAA WEATHER 

RADIO...OR AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF.



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