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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

854 PM CDT FRI AUG 1 2003



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN ST. FRANCOIS...NORTHERN STE.

GENEVIEVE AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...



WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH

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



WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 

RAINFALL TOTALS IN EXTREME SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY AND ALONG THE 

NORTHERN BORDER OF ST. FRANCOIS AND STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTIES MAY HAVE 

REACHED 4 TO 7 INCHES OF RAINFALL...MOST OF WHICH FELL IN TWO HOURS

OR LESS.  



MEDIA REPORTS INDICATE SERIOUS FLOODING OCCURRED AS FAR NORTH AS

DESOTO MISSOURI AND FURTHER SOUTH ALONG AND NEAR JOACHIM CREEK.

CERTAINLY THE HILLY TERRAIN CAUSED FLASH FLOODING AND AS STREAMS

AND TRIBUTARIES CONTINUE TO CARRY OFF THE EVENING RAINFALL THEY

WILL REMAIN SWOLLEN OR POSSIBLY FLOODED FOR A BRIEF TIME THROUGH 

SOME PORTION OF THE NIGHT.



THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED FOR THE NIGHT. HOWEVER IF 

YOU ARE OUTSIDE OR MOBILE YOU SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS NOT TO BE

WHERE WATER REMAINS.  IN ADDITION TO SAFE TRAVEL THOSE WITH FLOODED

BASEMENTS OR AREAS IN OR NEAR RESIDENCES SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT

FLOODED AREAS AND ELECTRICITY DO NOT MIX...STAY AWAY AND CALL A 

FIRE DEPARTMENT OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ALLOW THEM TO USE THEIR

EXPERTISE TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO. 



FINALLY...SOMETIMES WARNINGS SOUND THE SAME OR SEEM REPETITIOUS.

THANKS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR LISTENING AND TAKING 

PRECAUTIONS.  IT MAKES OUR JOB EASIER AND GIVES US ALL A HAPPY 

ENDING.



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