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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

745 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 2003



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR MCDONALD...

BARRY AND NEWTON COUNTIES...



AT 739 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 

ACROSS THE AREA.



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE

WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING

TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER

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

NEOSHO...MONETT...WHEATON...WASHBURN...SELIGMAN...SAGINAW...PURDY...

PINEVILLE...NOEL...LANAGAN...GRANBY AND GOODMAN.



LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT THERE IS STANDING WATER ON HIGHWAY 43 

IN SOUHTWEST CITY.



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 3704 9459 3650 9460 3650 9364 3690 9365



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