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ILC117-100730-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

109 AM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MACOUPIN COUNTY UNTIL

215 AM CDT...

...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH NOON TODAY...



AT 109 AM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING OVER NORTHERN

MACOUPIN COUNTY FROM NORTHWEST OF PALMYRA TO VIRDEN AND GIRARD. 

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A NARROW BAND OF 

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED.  A SPOTTER IN VIRDEN REPORTED 2.60 

INCHES OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME FRIDAY EVENING.  



HIGHWAY 111 IS FLOODED AT MODESTO AND HIGHWAY 4 WAS 18 INCHES DEEP 

BETWEEN VIRDEN AND GIRARD AND WAS CLOSED.



RAINS HAVE TAPERED OFF FOR THE TIME BUT RUNOFF WILL KEEP FLOODING

POSSIBLE.  MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING TOWARD 

MORNING SO KEEP ABREAST OF LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS IN YOUR AREA.



A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH NOON TODAY. THIS WATCH MAY BE

EXTENDED AS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY INTO THE 

AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS AND COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE 

BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



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