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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE

430 AM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR 

BOONE...MADISON...PLATTE...AND STANTON COUNTIES UNTIL 715 AM CDT...



AT 430 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE 

RAIN WAS BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF ACROSS BOONE...MADISON...STANTON... 

AND PLATTE COUNTIES.  SOME LOCATIONS WILL PICK UP AN ADDITIONAL 

QUARTER OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL THROUGH 715 AM CDT.



RECENT CALLS TO THE COUNTY DISPATCH CENTERS INDICATE THAT HIGHWAY 45 

IS CLOSED IN THE NEWMAN GROVE AREA IN SOUTHWEST MADISON COUNTY.  

SOME GRAVEL ROADS WERE REPORTED UNDER WATER IN PLATTE COUNTY.  

EARLIER THIS MORNING AROUND 145 AM...HUMPHREY HAD 3.35 INCHES OF 

RAINFALL.



DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. AS LITTLE AS SIX

INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. THIS

INCLUDES PICKUP TRUCKS AND SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES.



NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. TWO FEET OF

RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES...INCLUDING PICKUPS AND

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT...OR HAS A HIGH

PROBABILITY OF OCCURRING.



LAT...LON 4193 9832 4149 9828 4154 9788 4152 9770

          4146 9772 4138 9755 4143 9726 4176 9729

          4179 9708 4211 9708 4207 9781 4193 9785



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