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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA

1110 AM EST FRI FEB 9 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EST FRIDAY

AFTERNOON (100 PM CST FRIDAY AFTERNOON) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING

COUNTIES...



IN INDIANA

     MARSHALL...KOSCIUSKO...ST. JOSEPH...PULASKI...STARKE...NOBLE...

     LA PORTE...FULTON...ELKHART...STEUBEN AND LAGRANGE



IN MICHIGAN

     ST. JOSEPH...BRANCH...BERRIEN...CASS AND HILLSDALE



INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...



THREE RIVERS...STURGIS...NILES...HILLSDALE...DOWAGIAC... 

CONSTANTINE...COLDWATER...CENTREVILLE...CASSOPOLIS...WINAMAC     

WARSAW...WAKARUSA...SOUTH BEND...PLYMOUTH...MISHAWAKA...   

LAGRANGE...LA PORTE...KNOX...KENDALLVILLE...GOSHEN...     

ELKHART...ANGOLA...

     

AT 1108 AM EST (1008 AM EST) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 

INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWEST 

LOWER MICHIGAN AND NORTHWEST INDIANA.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING 

RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.



RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER MUCH 

OF THE ADVISORY AREA THIS MORNING.  IN ADDITION...SNOWMELT HAS CONTRIBUTED

TO ADDITONAL RUNOFF.  MAY SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE AT OR NEAR 

BANKFULL.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS

AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS.



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

ROADWAY.

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