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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

138 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR ST. CLAIR AND 

BENTON COUNTIES...AND UNTIL 430 PM FOR VERNON COUNTY...



AT 135 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED SHOWERS 

AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DROP MODERATE RAINFALL OVER 

PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA.  RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 

ONE AND A HALF TO THREE INCHES HAD FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA... 

WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES OVER NORTHEAST VERNON AND 

SOUTHERN ST. CLAIR COUNTIES. 



LOCAL LAW ENFORECENT OFFICIALS REPORTED ONE ROAD CLOSURE IN VERNON 

COUNTY BUT NO OTHER FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED. 



THE SHOWERS WILL TAPER OFF THROUGH 3 PM AND THE RUNOFF FROM THE 

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL GRADUALLY SUBSISDE.  HOWEVER RUNOFF FROM THE 

HEAVY RAIN EARLIER TODAY WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF SOME 

SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS... 

AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.



LAT...LON 3854 9317 3809 9312 3808 9352 3793 9359

          3792 9412 3768 9413 3769 9459 3804 9460

          3803 9410 3821 9388 3822 9353 3846 9347



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