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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO

125 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2008



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LAWRENCE MO-GREENE MO-WEBSTER MO-DADE MO-STONE MO-POLK MO-DALLAS MO-

CHRISTIAN MO-BARRY MO-TANEY MO-MCDONALD MO-

125 PM CDT MON MAR 31 2008



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR

BARRY...CHRISTIAN...GREENE...LAWRENCE...MCDONALD...POLK...

SOUTHEASTERN DADE...SOUTHWESTERN DALLAS...STONE...TANEY AND WEBSTER

COUNTIES...



AT 117 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 

LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WITH EMBEDDED  

THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.   

THIS AREA OF STORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THIS   

AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH THE RAINFALL HAS NOT STARTED...THE SET UP OF   

TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY ONE TO TWO INCH RAINFALL RATES   

WILL LIKELY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS THE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS   

MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE...TO LOCALLY   

THREE INCHES WILL LIKELY OCCUR ACROSS THE WARNED AREA BEFORE 7 PM.   

DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUND FROM RECENT FLOODING...RUNOFF FROM THE   

HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE FAST AND WILL LIKELY FLOOD LOW WATER   

CROSSINGS QUICKLY. 



FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR

IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED 

BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 



LAT...LON 3675 9462 3676 9406 3729 9406 3787 9311

      3750 9311 3749 9272 3705 9292 3682 9292

      3657 9277 3651 9278 3649 9462

TIME...MOT...LOC 1825Z 180DEG 0KT 3701 9343



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