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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS

955 PM CDT SAT OCT 1 2005



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JACKSON-JEFFERSON-

955 PM CDT SAT OCT 1 2005



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 AM CDT FOR

WESTERN JEFFERSON AND SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTIES...



AT 952 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 

INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY 

RAINFALL...PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER PORTIONS OF THE WARNED 

AREA. OLD HIGHWAY 75 HAS WATER RUNNING OVER THE ROADWAY...A FOOT 

DEEP IN SPOTS...WHERE THE ROADWAY MEETS MUDDY CREEK.  



DITCHES AND CREEKS ARE RUNNING BANKFULL IN JEFFERSON COUNTY...AND 

WITH HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING INTO THE AREA...FLASH FLOODING CAN BE 

ANTICIPATED AT ANY TIME OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY. SOME OF 

THE MORE VULNERABLE AREAS WILL BE ALONG ROCK CREEK AND CHALK 

CREEK...FROM MERIDEN TO VALLEY FALLS. 



LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

MERIDEN...OZAWKIE...HOYT...VALLEY FALLS...DENISON AND PERRY LAKE.



RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM 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.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...AWAY FROM RISING WATER.



LAT...LON 3941 9556 3940 9533 3909 9535 3907 9536

      3916 9557 3922 9559 3922 9571 3923 9572

      3945 9562



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