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FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
815 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

...A FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
HOWELL COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM CST.
OZARK COUNTY UNTIL 1045 PM CST.
WRIGHT COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM CST. 
TEXAS COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM CST.
SHANNON COUNTY UNTIL 1115 PM CST.
OREGON COUNTY UNTIL 1115 PM CST.
DOUGLAS COUNTY UNTIL 1130 PM CST.

AT 800 PM CST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND VOLUNTEER 
WEATHER OBSERVERS REPORTED NUMEROUS LOW WATER CROSSINGS FLOODED AND 
IMPASSABLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. BANDS OF HEAVY 
RAINFALL HAS SHIFTED SOUTH ACROSS EXTREME PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL 
MISSOURI SINCE 6 PM. IT WAS MAINLY SOUTH OF A GAINESVILLE TO 
EMINENCE LINE WHERE AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH IS POSSIBLE 
BEFORE THE RAINFALL ENDS OVERNIGHT. 

AS OF 8 PM...THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS CAUSING FLOODING IN THE 
FOLLOWING AREAS...

IN HOWELL COUNTY...HIGHWAY 142 WEST OF MOODY...ALSO WEST OF LANTON 
WAS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. COUNTY ROAD 8530 NEAR WEST PLAINS HAS 
BEEN CLOSED RECENTLY DUE TO THE FLOOD WATERS.

IN OZARK COUNTY...HIGHWAY T SOUTH OF GAINESVILLE REMAINS 
FLOODED...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE LITTLE CREEK...LICK CREEK AND POSSUM 
WALK CREEK.

IN SHANNON COUNTY...HIGHWAY H ALONG ROCKY CREEK REMAINS FLOODED AND 
IMPASSABLE. 

IN OREGON COUNTY...COUNTY ROAD 202 AND HIGHWAY E SOUTHEAST ALTON 
REMAIN FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE. ALSO PORTIONS COUNTY ROADS IN 
THOMASVILLE ALONG THE ELEVEN POINT RIVER REMAINS FLOODED AND 
IMPASSABLE.

IN DOUGLAS COUNTY...HIGHWAY FF EAST OF AVA...HIGHWAY Y WEST OF 
AVA...AND HIGHWAY U EAST OF HIGHWAY 76 REMAIN FLOODED AND 
IMPASSABLE. 

IN TEXAS COUNTY...HIGHWAY U WEST OF HIGHWAY 137 REMAINS CLOSED DUE 
TO THE HIGH WATER. 

IN WRIGHT COUNTY...NORTH EDWARD HIGHWAY ALONG THE GASCONADE RIVER 
REMAINS FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE.  

REMEMBER DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS 
THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO 
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED 
QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3682 9276 3648 9278 3652 9207 3652 9115
          3742 9121 3744 9176 3760 9177 3760 9224
          3748 9228 3749 9268 3710 9270 3706 9292

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