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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL

1110 AM CST MON JAN 29 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST MONDAY

EVENING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

     PUTNAM AND BUREAU



IN SOUTHEAST IOWA

     LEE...HENRY...JEFFERSON...LOUISA...VAN BUREN AND DES MOINES



IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

     SCOTLAND AND CLARK



IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

     MCDONOUGH...HANCOCK...WARREN AND HENDERSON



IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS

     HENRY...ROCK ISLAND AND MERCER



IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA

     MUSCATINE AND SCOTT



AT 1055 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

WIDESPREAD AREAS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN FALLING OVER ADVISORY 

AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES...COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS...AND 

COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS CONFIRM THAT UPWARDS OF 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 

FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF HANCOCK...MCDONOUGH...AND SOUTHERN WARREN 

COUNTIES LAST NIGHT AND THROUGH THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL HEAVY 

RAINFALL WILL STREAM NORTH OUT OF EASTERN MISSOURI AND ACROSS THE 

ADVISORY AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. AN ADDITIONAL 1... 

TO 1 AND A HALF INCHES OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE BY EVENING 

ACROSS MOST OF THE ADVISORY AREA. THIS MAY LEAD TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF 

MINOR FLOODING IN THE ADVISORY AREA THIS AFTERNOON.



AREAS OF SLUSH AND PONDING WATER ON ROADS AND INTERSECTIONS WILL BE 

THE MAIN PROBLEM. THESE CONDITIONS MAY WORSEN WITH ADDITIONAL RAIN. 

AREAS OF PONDING WATER ON RURAL ROADS MAY ALSO OCCUR. EXISTING SNOW 

COVER MAY HELP ABSORB SOME OF THE WATER...BUT WILL RELEASE IT WHEN 

THE SNOW MELTS WITH WARMING TEMPERATURES...THUS CAUSING ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE WIDESPREAD RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON MAY ALSO

CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND OTHER LOW 

LYING AREAS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



REPORTS OUT OF PORTIONS OF HANCOCK AND MCDONOUGH COUNTIES INDICATE 

WATER IS STARTING TO COVER SOME ROADWAYS...AND WITH THE EXPECTED 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL...PROBLEMS WITH WATER OVER ROADS WILL EXPAND 

NORTH ACROSS THE REMAINING ADVISORY AREA. REPORTS FROM THE QUAD 

CITIES ALSO INDICATE PONDING OF WATER AT MANY INTERSECTIONS AND 

UNDERPASSES.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 

ROADWAY. UNDERPASSES AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO 

FLOODING DURING TIMES OF HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE AVOIDED. IF YOUR 

VEHICLE DOES STALL IN RISING WATERS...ABANDON IT AND MOVE TO HIGHER 

GROUND.



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