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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1035 PM CDT FRI APR 30 2004



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 345 AM CDT FOR WEBSTER

COUNTY...



AT 1033 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED STREET 

FLOODING WAS DEVELOPING IN FORDLAND WHERE LOCALLY TWO TO THREE 

INCHES OF RAIN FELL SINCE 7 PM. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS 

SHIFTED NORTH AND EAST OF THE AREA...RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE. ALTHOUGH 

NO MAJOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED...RECEIVE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS 

PREVENTED THE SOILS TO ABSORB AN ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL...AND ANY 

RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RUNOFF INTO STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS 

OF WEBSTER COUNTY.  



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...SEYMOUR...ROGERSVILLE...MARSHFIELD...FORDLAND...DIGGINS AND

NORTHVIEW.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF 

CREEKS AND STREAMS.



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF

RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.



LAT...LON 3737 9269 3706 9269 3709 9307 3736 9307



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