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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

1214 AM CDT SAT SEP 23 2006



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HOWELL MO-

1214 AM CDT SAT SEP 23 2006



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR

HOWELL COUNTY...



AT 1208 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 

INDICATE REPEATED ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL 

RAINFALL AFFECTING CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF HOWELL COUNTY. 

RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING TO 

PRODUCE HOURLY RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO LOCALLY TWO INCHES PER HOUR. 

SINCE THE HEAVY RAIN BEGAN LATE FRIDAY EVENING DOPPLER RADAR 

INDICATES THAT MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HOWELL COUNTY HAS SEEN 2 

TO LOCALLY 5 INCHES OF RAIN. 



ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING...AND 

POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING OVERNIGHT. SOME PORTIONS OF 

SOUTHERN HOWELL COUNTY COULD SEE STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 6 

TO 8 INCHES BY MORNING. RAINFALL OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL PRODUCE 

FLASH FLOODING.



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

AROUND...DONT DROWN



LAT...LON 3650 9215 3650 9170 3686 9168 3687 9195

      3694 9196 3693 9209



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