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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

900 PM CDT SAT APR 13 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR OZARK... 

NORTHEASTERN TANEY...HOWELL AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES...



AT 845 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EAST OF AN AVA TO GAINESVILLE 

LINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO 

THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS EASTERN OZARK AND NORTHERN 

HOWELL COUNTIES FROM NEAR TECUMSEH TO POMONA...AND FROM EXTREME 

NORTHEAST TANEY COUNTY INTO CENTRAL DOUGLAS COUNTY FROM NEAR SQUIRES 

TO VANZANT.



THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS HOWELL 

COUNTY THROUGH 10 PM.  ADDITIONAL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND 

THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND 

ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 



RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING TO 

OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 



BECAUSE OF THE HILLY TERRAIN OF THE OZARKS...THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF

LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO

NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT

ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES

AWAY.



REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.



LAT...LON 3706 9169 3651 9170 3653 9277 3666 9278

          3665 9293 3706 9291



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