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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS

907 AM CDT THU AUG 25 2005



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RILEY-GEARY-DICKINSON-MORRIS-

907 AM CDT THU AUG 25 2005



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1115 AM CDT FOR MORRIS...

EASTERN DICKINSON...GEARY AND SOUTHWESTERN RILEY COUNTIES...



AT 905 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 

INDICATE A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN 

MOVING ACROSS MUCH OF MORRIS...GEARY AND THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF

RILEY COUNTIES.  RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES OF 1.5 TO 2 INCHES 

PER HOUR FROM SOME OF THESE STORMS.  THE GROUND IN THIS AREA IS 

SATURATED FROM OVERNIGHT RAINFALL AND RAINFALL OF THE PAST WEEK SO 

RUNOFF WILL BE QUICK AND LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING.



LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

JUNCTION CITY...COUNCIL GROVE...BURDICK...WILSEY...HERINGTON...

HOPE...LATIMER...PARKERVILLE...WOODBINE...WHITE CITY...DWIGHT...

CHAPMAN...OGDEN...RILEY...KEATS AND COUNCIL GROVE LAKE.



THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 287 AND 316.



AGAIN...RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY ROADS AND 

FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS 

ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.



DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.



LAT...LON 3861 9712 3860 9689 3853 9689 3853 9638

      3888 9652 3907 9650 3914 9658 3933 9668

      3931 9692 3912 9692 3908 9701



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