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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

724 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SHANNON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI.



* UNTIL 115 AM CDT.



* AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.     

  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED NEARLY TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN    

  THE PAST HOUR WITHIN A SMALL AREA BETWEEN SUMMERSVILLE...ROUND     

  SPRING...AND EMINENCE. RAINFALL RATES ARE INCREASING WITH THESE    

  STORMS WITH RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES PER HOUR        

  LIKELY. 



* 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 ALLEY SPRING AND ROUND SPRING.  CAMPERS ALONG THE SMALLER  

  TRIBUTARIES OF THE CURRENT RIVER AND JACKS FORK SHOULD MOVE TO     

  HIGHER GROUND IF RISING WATERS ARE OBSERVED.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO 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 3729 9127 3719 9125 3704 9130 3704 9156

      3711 9165 3727 9165



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