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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1155 AM CDT SAT AUG 6 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SHANNON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI.



* UNTIL 600 PM CDT.



* AT 1154 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.   

  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN 

  ACROSS NORTHERN SHANNON COUNTY SINCE 10 AM. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO 

  TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF SHANNON COUNTY. 



* 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 AREAS BETWEEN EMINENCE...ROUND SPRING...AND AKERS...AND 

  ALONG TRIBUTARIES INTO THE CURRENT RIVER.  



  SIGNIFICANT RISES ARE ALSO LIKELY ON THE CURRENT RIVER. BOATERS

  AND CAMPERS ALONG THE CURRENT RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES SHOULD BE 

  ALERT FOR RISING WATER LEVELS...AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER

  GROUND.



FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE 

YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME 

KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR 

CREEKS.



LAT...LON 3740 9120 3689 9126 3691 9164 3740 9163



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