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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1215 PM CDT MON AUG 23 2004



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

MILLER...BENTON AND MORGAN COUNTIES...



AT 1215 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER 

RADAR ESTIMATED OVER THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER 

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

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



A LOCAL TELEVISION STATION IN SPRINGFIELD RECEIVED A REPORT OF 6.30 

INCHES OF RAIN IN SUNRISE BEACH SINCE 9 AM. SUNRISE BEACH IS LOCATED 

NORTH OF CAMDENTON AND WEST OF OSAGE BEACH.   



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. 



CAMPERS IN THE GRAVOIS CAMPGROUND...NEAR GRAVOIS MILLS...WERE BEING 

EVACUATED DUE TO THE GRAVOIS CREEK RISING RAPIDLY AND CURRENTLY OUT 

OF ITS BANKS AS OF 1130 AM.  



ALSO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE OCCURRED AROUND OSAGE 

BEACH...VERSAILLES AND CAMDENTON. HIGHWAY 52 IN THE CITY OF 

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

REPORTED COVERED BY WATER. AREAS NEAR HIGHWAY 5 AND 54 IN THE CITY 

OF CAMDENTON ARE REPORTED FLOODING. 



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

RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.



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JLT

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