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Shawnee Area Dam Close to Being Topped

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SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — Officials are telling residents in one Oklahoma neighborhood that a dam is close to being topped amid heavy rains.

The Shawnee News-Star reports that voluntary evacuations were underway Friday night in the Windmill Road neighborhood of Shawnee, which is about 40 miles southeast of Oklahoma City.

Don Lynch, the Shawnee/Pottawatomie County emergency management director, tells the newspaper that the Granada Lake dam is one-tenth of an inch away from a breach. That could lead to flooding in Windmill Road.

The flooding threat comes just days after storms produced more than 50 tornadoes in the Great Plains.