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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL

1055 PM CST THU FEB 8 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM

CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



  STARK COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  MARSHALL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  FULTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  KNOX COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS



AT 1041 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE LATE AFTERNOON AT LOCATIONS 

NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM CANTON TO HENRY LINE. UP TO ONE AND A HALF 

INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED BY RADAR SINCE 5 PM.



AT 10 PM...SHERIFF/S OFFICES FROM THE AFFECTED COUNTIES REPORTED 

STANDING WATER ACROSS SEVERAL RURAL ROADWAYS. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY 

RAINFALL HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS EVENING...MORE 

RAINFALL...HEAVY AT TIMES...IS EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP OVERNIGHT 

...WORSENING THE FLOODING SITUATION. 



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO JUDGE HOW MUCH

WATER COVERS ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.



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PLAHMER

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