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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1051 AM CDT SUN AUG 18 2002



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHERN PHELPS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI



* UNTIL 200 PM CDT



* AT 1045 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL APPROACHING THE WARNED AREA.

  DOPPLER RADAR AND THE VICHY-ROLLA AIRPORT INDICATED THAT BETWEEN

  TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA    

  THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING ANOTHER TWO 

  INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.



* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO 

  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...

  ROLLA...ST. JAMES...FLAG SPRING AND ROYAL. PERSONS ALONG SPRING 

  CREEK AND THE BOURBEUSE RIVER SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER 

  GROUND.



BECAUSE OF THE HILLY TERRAIN OF THE OZARKS...THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF

LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO

NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT

ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES 

AWAY.



LAT...LON 3815 9154 3778 9155 3788 9181 3802 9204

          3804 9164 3816 9164



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