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IAC107-012015-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL

207 PM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR KEOKUK COUNTY

IN SOUTHEAST IOWA...



AT 158 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...THAT TRACKED OVER MUCH OF KEOKUK 

COUNTY LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON...HAD MOVED 

SOUTHEAST OUT OF THE AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES SHOWED RAINFALL 

AMOUNTS BETWEEN 4 AND 6 INCHES FROM THESE STORMS OVER RURAL AREAS 

BETWEEN WHAT CHEER AND THURNBURG IN NORTHWEST KEOKUK COUNTY. 

WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES FELL OVER MUCH OF 

THE WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. AT NOON...A SPOTTER IN WHAT CHEER 

REPORTED 1.45 INCHES OF RAIN.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE 

BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...

FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES.



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