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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL

200 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR STARK...KNOX...MARSHALL...

PEORIA...WOODFORD...MCLEAN...TAZEWELL...FULTON AND MASON COUNTIES

UNTIL 400 PM CDT...



AT 200 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING FROM THE NORTHERN HALF OF KNOX COUNTY INTO

STARK AND NORTHERN PEORIA COUNTIES. ELSEWHERE IN THE WARNED AREA...

SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE INDICATED. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT

THAT SEVERAL ROADS IN RURAL AREAS WERE UNDERWATER. FLOODING WAS

PARTICULARLY SEVERE IN KNOX AND FULTON COUNTIES.



ALTHOUGH THERE IS A TEMPORARY LULL IN THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...

RADAR INDICATED MORE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEAST

IOWA. THIS ACTIVITY MAY MOVE INTO THE WARNING AREA LATER THIS 

AFTERNOON.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.

RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE

TO THE EFFECTS OF FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED

AREAS BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE.



REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE NEAREST LAW

ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY

TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.



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