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WGUS73 KPAH 260837

FFSPAH

ILC081-260930-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY

335 AM CDT THU AUG 26 2004



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY IN 

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...UNTIL 430 AM...



AT 330 AM...PADUCAH DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AFFECTING MUCH OF CENTRAL AND 

NORTHERN PORTIONS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR NOW ESTIMATES 

IN EXCESS OF 4 INCHES OF RAIN IN A BROAD SWATH...FROM JUST NORTH OF 

WOODLAWN...EAST ACROSS THE DIX AREA. AT THE AIRPORT IN MOUNT 

VERNON...2.75 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN MEASURED...FROM THE TIME THE 

RAIN BEGAN WEDNESDAY EVENING.



RADAR SHOWED LITTLE OR NO CONVECTION WEST OF JEFFERSON COUNTY. SO THE

BATCH OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH...SHOULD BE THE LAST ROUND 

THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. NEVER THE LESS...RAPID RISES IN 

CREEKS...STREAMS AND DITCHES REMAINS LIKELY UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS 

COME TO AN END. ADDITIONALLY...THE HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN STANDING 

WATER ON AREA ROADS.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS.



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