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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL

135 AM CDT THU AUG 22 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR DUBUQUE

COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA...DELAWARE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA...

BUCHANAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA...JACKSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL

IOWA...JONES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA...JO DAVIESS COUNTY IN

NORTHWEST ILLINOIS AND STEPHENSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...



AT 130 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED FROM INDEPENDECE 

IOWA...THROUGH DUBUQUE...TO FREEPORT ILLINOIS.



THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING AND MOVING OVER THIS 

AREA...LEADING TO THE VERY HIGH RAINFALL RATES AND SUBSEQUENT 

FLASH FLOODING.



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS 

FROM 4 TO 6 INCHES HAD FALLEN IN THE PAST 4 HOURS ALONG A LINE FROM 

MANCHESTER TO FREEPORT. RECENT RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS AT THE DUBUQUE 

MUNICIPAL AIRPORT TOTALLED 5.82 INCHES AND UP TO 5 INCHES WAS 

REPORTED IN CASCADE THROUGH MIDNIGHT.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY

ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER

LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.



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