RIVER CREST HIKED AFTER FALSE DATA REPORTED

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Tuesday, July 20, 1993

Inaccurate data from electronic equipment that transmits Mississippi River stages by telephone from the Cape Girardeau river gauge has prompted the National Weather Service to raise the expected flood crest at Cape Girardeau.

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