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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

215 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN BARRY COUNTY IN MISSOURI



* UNTIL 530 PM CDT.



* AT 213 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.   

  DOPPLER RADAR AND ESTIMATED THAT NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN

  SINCE LATE THIS MORNING...WITH NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS HAVING

  TRACKED OVER THE AREA. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL

  ARE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE

  AFTERNOON.



* TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE

  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH

  FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING   

  INCLUDE...EAGLE ROCK...GOLDEN AND THE ROARING RIVER STATE PARK.

  SIGNIFICANT RISES AND FLOODING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE ALONG THE WHITE 

  RIVER.



FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE 

YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME 

KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR 

CREEKS AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.



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 3662 9359 3650 9359 3648 9389 3665 9390



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