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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

523 PM CDT FRI AUG 27 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  MARIES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.



* UNTIL 930 PM CDT.



* AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.     

  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS

  AFFECTED NORTHERN MARIES COUNTY IN THE LAST TWO HOURS.  



* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE

  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH

  FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING    

  INCLUDE...VIENNA AND RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL MARIES COUNTY.  

  SMALL STREAMS AND TRIBUTARIES IN THE GASCONADE AND MARIES RIVER BASINS

  WILL LIKELY FLOOD LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN NORTH CENTRAL MARIES      

  COUNTY.



IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS

FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF

SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.



LAT...LON 3828 9174 3813 9203 3820 9215 3829 9205



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