Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA

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WGUS73 KDVN 010407 CCA
FFSDVN
IAC115-ILC131-010545-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED COUNTY CODES AND HEADLINE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1048 PM CDT WED APR 30 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1245 AM THURSDAY CDT FOR 
LOUISA AND MERCER COUNTIES...

AT 1048 PM CDT...MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.  RADAR WAS INDICATING SCATTERED STRONG 
THUNDERSTORMS FROM WAPELLO TO EAST OF ELIZA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW THAT UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE
FALLEN OVER NORTHERN WAPELLO COUNTY WHILE A SWATH OF RAIN OF 4 TO 6
INCHES OR MORE FELL FROM EAST OF JOY THROUGH ALEDO  TO SOUTHEAST OF
SHERARD. 

THE LOUISA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT DITCHES WERE OVERFLOWING ALONG
HIGHWAY 61 NORTH OF WAPELLO AND STREET FLOODING DUE TO BACKED UP STORM
DRAINS WAS OCCURRING IN WAPELLO AND GRANDVIEW.  THE MERCER COUNTY 
SHERIFFS OFFICE SAID NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN CALLED
IN TO THEIR OFFICE.  SOME OF THE MORE SIGNIFICANT REPORTS INCLUDE
AS MUCH AS 2 TO 3 FT OF WATER OVER SOME STREETS IN ALEDO...WATER 
3 TO 4 FT DEEP OVER 30TH AVENUE JUST WEST OF HIGHWAY 94...WATER OF
UNKNOWN DEPTH RUNNING OVER ROUTE 17  AND ROUTE 94 SOUTH OF ALEDO.
A SHERIFFS DEPUTY ALSO ADVISED THAT POPE CREEK WAS AT BANK FULL AND
WOULD LIKELY OVERFLOW ITS BANKS BY MORNING.

EVEN THOUGH MOST OF THE RAIN HAS ENDED...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH
MIDNIGHT AND CONTINUED EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO AGGRAVATE
THE ONGOING FLOODING.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. THE WATER MAY
BE TOO DEEP TO CROSS SAFELY OR THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT. VEHICLES
CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

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DLF

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WGUS73 KDVN 010557
FFSDVN
IAC115-ILC131-010615-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1250 AM CDT THU MAY 1 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR 
LOUISA AND MERCER COUNTIES...HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS SUBSIDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. PEOPLE WITH 
INTERESTS ALONG POPE CREEK AND THE EDWARDS RIVER SHOULD STILL 
MONITOR THOSE AREAS FOR HIGH WATER...BUT OTHER STREAMS AND CREEKS 
HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE. THUS MANY OF THE FLOOD 
THREATS WERE ENDING. EVEN THOUGH STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE RECEDING... 
SOME ROADWAYS MAY STILL BE COVERED WITH WATER.  MOTORISTS ARE 
ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. 

NUISANCE FLOODING WILL LAST INTO THURSDAY MORNING IN MUCH OF 
LOUISA AND MERCER COUNTIES.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. THE WATER MAY
BE TOO DEEP TO CROSS SAFELY OR THE ROAD COULD BE WASHED OUT. VEHICLES
CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

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