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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
515 PM CDT MON APR 25 2011

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CHRISTIAN MO-GREENE MO-BARRY MO-STONE MO-WEBSTER MO-LAWRENCE MO-
515 PM CDT MON APR 25 2011

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY
FOR BARRY...CHRISTIAN...GREENE...LAWRENCE...STONE AND WEBSTER
COUNTIES...

AT 509 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WAS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE WARNED 
AREA.  RAINFALL RATES OF A TENTH OF AN INCH TO QUARTER OF AN INCH 
PER HOUR WERE STILL OCCURRING...HOWEVER THIS RAIN SHOULD BEGIN TO 
DIMINISH DURING THE EVENING FROM WEST TO EAST.  DESPITE THE 
DIMINISHING RAINFALL LATER THIS EVENING...THE FLASH FLOODING WILL 
LIKELY LAST INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS THE WARNING AREA HAS 
RECEIVED BETWEEN FIVE AND 12 INCHES OF RAIN THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND.

RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IS CAUSING FLASH FLOODING.
CREEKS...STREAMS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL BE ESPECIALLY
SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING LOW WATER
CROSSINGS...

ROUTE ZZ AT THE MYERS BRANCH NEAR RADER...
ROUTE CC WEST OF FAIR GROVE AT THE POMME DE TERRE RIVER...
HIGHWAY 13 AT RAILEY CREEK NEAR REEDS SPRING...
HIGHWAY 13 AT PINE RUN NORTHWEST OF GALENA...
HIGHWAY 97 AT THE SPRING RIVER NORTH OF STOTTS CITY.

THE MISSOURI HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO REPORT MANY CLOSED 
ROADS DUE TO HIGH WATER THROUGHOUT THE WARNING AREA. 


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN
AROUND...DONT DROWN.

&&

LAT...LON 3649 9407 3729 9405 3728 9363 3743 9362
      3741 9308 3749 9307 3748 9269 3707 9269
      3707 9290 3681 9291 3682 9331 3649 9332

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