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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

442 PM CST WED DEC 18 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FRANKLIN...ST. LOUIS CITY...ST. LOUIS AND

ST. CHARLES COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED...



WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH

PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS REACHED 2.00 TO 2.50 INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS 

EASTERN FRANKLIN AND ST. CHARLES COUNTIES THIS MORNING. AT THE 

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE STORM TOTALS MEASURED 2.62 

WITH 2.82 INCHES OF RAIN REPORTED IN ST. CHARLES. LESSER AMOUNTS 

WERE REPORTED FURTHER EAST IN THE METRO AREA...AROUND AN INCH...1.13 

AT LAMBERT FIELD AND 1.43 INCHES OF RAINFALL AT SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS 

AIRPORT.   



ANOTEHR LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA BETWEEN NOW 

AND 700 PM...BUT RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE LIGHTER AND THE FLOODING 

THREAT IS DIMINISHED.  



HOWEVER...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 1000 PM 

THIS EVENING...AND LOCALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE.



KEEP ABREAST OF LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS

THEOUGHOUT THE EVENING.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER 

DETAILS AND UPDATES.



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