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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO

1000 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007



.HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED...BUT FLOODING CONTINUES...ESPECIALLY 

ALONG AREA RIVERS.



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HOLT MO-NODAWAY MO-ATCHISON MO-

1000 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ATCHISON...WESTERN

NODAWAY AND HOLT COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 AM CDT...



AS OF 1000 AM...RAINFALL HAS TAPERED OFF TO LIGHT RAIN ACROSS FAR 

NORTHWEST MISSOURI...WITH HOURLY RATES OF AROUND ONE TENTH OF AN 

INCH PER HOUR.



HOWEVER...A NUMBER OF ROADS REMAIN CLOSED DUE THE TORRENTIAL RAINS 

WHICH PRODUCED AMOUNTS OF THREE TO FOUR INCHES EARLY THIS MORNING. 



IN ATCHISON COUNTY...HIGHWAY 59 NEAR TARKIO AS WELL AS MINOR ROADS 

ALONG THE TARKIO RIVER NEAR WESTBORO REMAIN CLOSED.



IN NODAWAY COUNTY...CATALINA ROAD NEAR BURLINGTON JUNCTION REMAINS 

UNUSABLE.



IN HOLT COUNTY...HIGHWAY 111 NEAR FORTESCUE AS WELL AS SECONDARY 

ROADS IN MOUNT CITY REMAIN CLOSED.



THIS MORNINGS RAINFALL IS LIKELY JUST THE FIRST OF SEVERAL ROUNDS OF 

HEAVY RAINFALL FORECAST OVER THE REGION DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL 

DAYS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. 

SIGNIFICANT RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED ALONG THE 102 AND NODAWAY 

RIVERS. PERSONS LIVING ALONG OR NEAR THESE RIVERS SHOULD PAY SPECIAL 

ATTENTION TO FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS ISSUED SPECIFICALLY FOR 

THOSE RIVERS.



THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE REISSUED AS AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING 

DUE TO ROAD CLOSURES UPON EXPIRATION AT 11 AM.



LAT...LON 4058 9491 4018 9496 4012 9506 3993 9502

      3986 9508 4007 9538 4059 9578



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