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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1255 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 AM CDT FOR PHELPS AND 

MARIES COUNTIES...



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 5 AM CDT FOR NORTHERN TEXAS 

...DENT...AND PULASKI COUNTIES...





AT 1250 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44.  

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ACROSS 

MUCH OF THE WARNED AREA WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS NEAR TWO AND A 

HALF INCHES.



ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FARTHER WEST ACROSS SOUTHERN 

MISSOURI WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND PRODUCE  

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IN SOME AREAS. THIS 

WILL INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF FLASH FLOODING.  THE HEAVIEST 

RAINFALL THROUGH 4 AM WILL BE CONCENTRATED FROM SOUTHERN PULASKI AND 

PHELPS COUNTIES INTO DENT AND TEXAS COUNTIES. 



RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO OCCUR 

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

LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...ROLLA...HOUSTON... 

FORT LEONARD WOOD...WAYNESVILLE...ST. JAMES...SALEM...AND LICKING.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO

HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO

FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



LAT...LON 3830 9159 3783 9151 3764 9119 3744 9169

          3724 9171 3726 9225 3757 9219 3799 9241

          3804 9221 3829 9215



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