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FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO

215 PM CDT THU MAY 16 2002



...FLOOD WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS...



IN KANSAS:



ATCHISON...DONIPHAN...LEAVENWORTH...WYANDOTTE AND JOHNSON.



IN MISSOURI:



ATCHISON...NODAWAY...WORTH...GENTRY...HARRISON...MERCER...PUTNAM...

SCHUYLER...HOLT...ANDREW...DE KALB...DAVIESS...GRUNDY...SULLIVAN...

ADAIR...BUCHANAN...CLINTON...CALDWELL...LIVINGSTON...LINN...MACON...

PLATTE...CLAY...RAY...CARROLL...CHARITON...RANDOLPH AND JACKSON.



THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL SUFFICIENT TO 

PRODUCE RENEWED FLOODING ON AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS HAS DIMINISHED 

SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND 

THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT NO 

WIDESPREAD FLOODING PROBLEMS ARE EXPECTED. 



...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING FOR THE 

FOLLOWING AREAS...



IN KANSAS:



MIAMI AND LINN.



IN MISSOURI:



LAFAYETTE...SALINE...HOWARD...CASS...JOHNSON...PETTIS...COOPER...

BATES AND HENRY.



SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL ARE FORECAST 

TO FORM ALONG A COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS IT DROPS 

SOUTHEAST INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI.   

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED AN AVERAGE OF HALF AN INCH OF RAIN FELL THIS 

MORNING SOUTH OF A PAOLA KANSAS TO MARSHALL LINE. UP TO AN 

ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS 

THROUGH THIS EVENING...WHICH COULD LEAD TO RENEWED FLOODING ON AREA 

RIVERS...STREAMS...CREEKS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. 



A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR HEAVY RAIN

ACROSS THE WATCH AREA...WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLOODING ALONG AREA RIVERS.

IF YOU ARE IN THE WATCH AREA...CHECK YOUR PREPAREDNESS

REQUIREMENTS...ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE INTERESTS ALONG AREA RIVERS.

KEEP INFORMED...AND BE READY FOR ACTION IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IF

A FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED.



MJ

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