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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

524 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN MISSOURI.



* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT.



* AT 519 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.

  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN AN INCH AND AN INCH AND A HALF

  HAS OCCURRED ACROSS SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY WITH THE RECENT

  ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS.



* SLOW MOVING 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...MOUNT VERNON...VERONA...PIERCE CITY...MILLER...

  MARIONVILLE...AURORA...STOTTS CITY...RED OAK...HOBERG...FREISTATT

  AND CHESAPEAKE.



SOME STREETS WERE BEGINNING TO FLOOD IN THE FREISTATT AREA WITH THIS 

ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN.



SEVERAL MORE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS 

EVENING WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE.  

THIS WILL ADD TO THE RUNOFF FLOODING PROBLEM.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR

IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...

DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...

EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER

GROUND.



LAT...LON 3727 9363 3694 9364 3694 9406 3728 9405



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