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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

102 PM CST WED DEC 18 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FRANKLIN...ST. LOUIS

CITY...ST. LOUIS AND ST. CHARLES COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM CST...



AT 102 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING OVER MANY ROADS 

THROUGHOUT ST CHARLES COUNTY. 



MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS REPORTED SIGNIGICANT

FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY N IN ST PETERS AT WEISS ROAD AND DARDENNE 

ROAD.  ROADS SIGNS ARE BEING PUT UP AND ROADS WILL BE CLOSED THERE

FOR A TIME.  U.S. HIGHWAY 40 AT HIGHWAY K IN ST CHARLES COUNTY

AT 100 PM REPORTED TWO FEET OF WATER OVER THE ROAD. 



AT 100 PM IN WESTERN ST LOUIS COUNTY HIGHWAY 141 AT INTERSTATE 44 

WAS UNDER WATER.



FRANKLIN COUNTY EMA REPORTED SNAKE HILL ROAD NEAR HIGHWAY UU JUST 

SOUTHWEST OF UNION IS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING.  VOSS CREEK HAS FLOODED

AND CLOSED SNAKE HILL ROAD.



HEAVY RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE WITH SMALLER STREAMS AND TRIBUTARIES 

CONTINUING TO RISE WITH THE RAPID INFLUX OF WATER. RESIDENTS ALONG

THE FLOOD PLAIN OF DARDENNE CREEK FROM LAKE ST LOUIS TO ST PETERS

CAN EXPECT WATERS TO RISE AND PROBABLY BE OUT OF THE BANKS LATE THIS 

AFTERNOON.



REMEMBER...WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROAD SURFACES CAN WASH THEM OUT. YOU

CAN NOT ALWAYS COUNT ON THE ROAD BEING THERE AS YOU DRIVE THROUGH 

FLOWING WATER. WHY TAKE THE CHANCE



RAINS HAVE SUBSIDED FOR THE TIME BEING BUT ADDITIONAL RAINS ARE 

POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON.



VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO 

HIGHER GROUND.



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