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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

640 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MONTGOMERY...JERSEY...

CALHOUN...GREENE...MACOUPIN...ST. CHARLES AND WARREN COUNTIES UNTIL

1000 AM CDT...



AT 635 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED RAIN HAD ENDED ACROSS 

MOST OF THE AREA.  AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN EXTENDED FROM NEAR 

CARLINVILLE TO NOKOMIS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND THIS LINGERING 

RAIN SHOULD END BY 715 AM.



SHERIFFS OFFICES FROM MACOUPIN AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES REPORTED 

NUMEROUS ROADS HAVE ANYWHERE FROM SEVERAL INCHES TO AROUND ONE FOOT 

OF WATER ON THE ROADWAYS.  SOME ROADS HAVE BEEN CLOSED DUE TO THE 

HIGH WATER.  THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED ROUTE 16 WAS 

CLOSED BETWEEN HILLSBORO AND NOKOMIS DUE TO WATER UP TO 8 INCHES 

DEEP. 



IN MOST OTHER LOCATIONS THERE WERE REPORTS OF STANDING WATER ON A 

FEW OF THE AREA ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY THOSE WHICH TYPICALLY HAVE 

DRAINAGE PROBLEMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. 



WITH DRY WEATHER EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING...ANY 

HIGHWATER SHOULD SUBSIDE THIS MORNING.  UNTIL THE WATER HAS 

SUBSIDED...USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND STAY 

AWAY FROM THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS 

SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

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