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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1125 AM CDT MON AUG 23 2004



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR CAMDEN...

MILLER...BENTON AND MORGAN COUNTIES...



AT 1122 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER 

MOST OF THE AREA...WITH LOCALLY FOUR TO FIVE INCHES NEAR GRAVOIS 

MILLS...LAURIE...OSAGE BEACH AND ROCKY MOUNT SINCE 9 AM. 



ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS SHIFTED SOUTHWARD...ADDITIONAL 

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO FORM OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI WITH AN 

ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLE BEFORE IT TAPERS 

OFF THIS AFTERNOON. 



REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING HAVE OCCURRED AROUND OSAGE 

BEACH...VERSAILLES AND GRAVOIS MILLS AREA. HIGHWAY 52 IN THE CITY OF 

VERSAILLES...JUST WEST OF THE HIGHWAY 5 AND 52 INTERSECTION WAS 

REPORTED COVERED BY WATER. 



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE

WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING

TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER 

CROSSINGS. 



&&



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.



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JLT

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