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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

735 PM CDT FRI AUG 1 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN ST.

FRANCOIS...NORTHERN STE. GENEVIEVE AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES

UNTIL 845 PM CDT...



AT 735 PM CDT...THE STORMS WHICH CREATED UP TO 4 TO 7 INCHES OF 

RAINFALL NEAR THE SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY LINE AND JUST SOUTH IN 

NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY AND STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY 

HAVE DRIFTED TO THE SOUTH. A FEW LIGHTER SHOWERS HAVE DRIFTED IN AND 

OUT THROUGH THE AREA.  



LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM DESOTO TO VALLEY MINES

IN JEFFERSON COUNTY AND ALONG JOACHIM CREEK.  COMMUNITIES OF 

TIMBERLINE CREEK...FRENCH VILLAGE...AND GOOSE CREEK IN EXTREME 

NORTHERN ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY ALSO REPORTED COPIOUS RAINFALL IN A 

SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.



HIGHWAYS V AND E IN JEFFERSON COUNTY AND ALSO MILLER STREET ALONG 

JOACHIM CREEK IN DESOTO ARE CLOSED AND JOACHIM CREEK IS OUT OF ITS 

BANKS IN SEVERAL AREAS. 



THERE IS ONE MORE HEAVY STORM WHICH HAS DEVELOPED NEAR ROLLA MISSOURI

THIS EVENING THAT COULD MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER ON THIS EVENING. 

IN ADDITION...RUNOFF FROM THE COPIOUS AMOUNT OF RAIN IN SUCH A SHORT

PERIOD OF TIME WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE FROM DITCHES AND STREAMS INTO

LARGER STREAMS AND TRIBUTARIES...PARTICULARLY THE BIG RIVER.  



KEEP ABREAST OF LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THROUGH THE EVENING.  THE

FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 845 PM AND

IF THE STORMS TO THE WEST CONTINUE TO BLOOM THIS WARNING COULD 

POSSIBLY BE EXTENDED IN TIME.



WE ARE NOW ENTERING THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT. THIS IS WHEN MOST 

PEOPLE ARE KILLED...THEY CANNOT SEE AS WELL AND WALK OR DRIVE INTO 

THE MURKY WATERS OF THE NIGHT.  DO NOT BECOME A STATISTIC...REMAIN 

CAUTIOUS AND VIGILENT



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