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PITTSBURG —
Heavy rains Saturday and Sunday dumped up to eight inches of water on areas of Crawford County and closed multiple roads.
Over those two nights, storms dropped an average of three and a half inches of rain over the county, but some areas, such as the unincorporated town of Beulah and the City of Franklin, received as much as eight inches. Doug Cramer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Springfield, Mo., attributed the heavy rain to “training thunderstorms,” or two nights of storms moving over the same area because of a stationary cold front.
“It’s a cold front that doesn’t move,” Cramer said, adding that the front should move by Tuesday. “It’s looking warmer through most of this week.”
Wildcat Extension District Agent Dean Stites said most of the county’s corn has already come up and likely wasn’t severely damaged in areas that received three to four inches of rain.
“But if it got seven or eight inches, that’s probably a different story,” Stites said. “Any that wasn’t up before the rain may have a problem.”
Stites said he had not yet had a chance to survey the county, but that low-water fields near creeks were most likely to be affected.
The rains did for the closing of roads in at least seven areas, Crawford County Undersheriff Dan Peak said.
Among those that are currently closed or were previously closed are:
• 210th Street between Atkinson Ave. and 20th Street
• Franklin Business 69 between the Cities of Franklin and Arma
• 560 Ave. east of 620th Street was impassable
• 240th Street between 520 and 540 Avenues.
• 530 Ave. east of 210th Street to U.S. Highway 69
• 520 Ave. south of Via Christi Hospital
• 510 Ave. east of 220th Street
“We try our best to monitor them throughout the day and into the evening,” Peak said.
Typically, Sheriff’s Deputies will call impassable roads into Crawford County Road and Bridge, which dispatches crews to barricade the streets, Peak continued.
“We let Road and Bridge make the determination whether that road is passable and when they can lift the barricades,” Peak said.
There was one accident due to the flooding. Peak said that at about 8 a.m. Monday morning a driver attempted to pass through high water on 240th Street half a mile north of 530 Ave. and was swept off the road. He said the driver and passenger were able to get out of the vehicle and walk to higher ground.
“The water was not rushing that much,” Peak said. “They just drove through and the vehicle just floated off. Everybody for the most part heeded the barricades and took a different route.”
Heavy rains Saturday and Sunday dumped up to eight inches of water on areas of Crawford County and closed multiple roads.
Over those two nights, storms dropped an average of three and a half inches of rain over the county, but some areas, such as the unincorporated town of Beulah and the City of Franklin, received as much as eight inches. Doug Cramer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Springfield, Mo., attributed the heavy rain to “training thunderstorms,” or two nights of storms moving over the same area because of a stationary cold front.
“It’s a cold front that doesn’t move,” Cramer said, adding that the front should move by Tuesday. “It’s looking warmer through most of this week.”
Wildcat Extension District Agent Dean Stites said most of the county’s corn has already come up and likely wasn’t severely damaged in areas that received three to four inches of rain.
“But if it got seven or eight inches, that’s probably a different story,” Stites said. “Any that wasn’t up before the rain may have a problem.”
Stites said he had not yet had a chance to survey the county, but that low-water fields near creeks were most likely to be affected.
The rains did for the closing of roads in at least seven areas, Crawford County Undersheriff Dan Peak said.
Among those that are currently closed or were previously closed are:
• 210th Street between Atkinson Ave. and 20th Street
• Franklin Business 69 between the Cities of Franklin and Arma
• 560 Ave. east of 620th Street was impassable
• 240th Street between 520 and 540 Avenues.
• 530 Ave. east of 210th Street to U.S. Highway 69
• 520 Ave. south of Via Christi Hospital
• 510 Ave. east of 220th Street
“We try our best to monitor them throughout the day and into the evening,” Peak said.
Typically, Sheriff’s Deputies will call impassable roads into Crawford County Road and Bridge, which dispatches crews to barricade the streets, Peak continued.
“We let Road and Bridge make the determination whether that road is passable and when they can lift the barricades,” Peak said.
There was one accident due to the flooding. Peak said that at about 8 a.m. Monday morning a driver attempted to pass through high water on 240th Street half a mile north of 530 Ave. and was swept off the road. He said the driver and passenger were able to get out of the vehicle and walk to higher ground.
“The water was not rushing that much,” Peak said. “They just drove through and the vehicle just floated off. Everybody for the most part heeded the barricades and took a different route.”
