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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL

1025 AM CST FRI FEB 9 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM

CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



  SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS



AT 1025 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN NEAR SHELYBVILLE. ONE HALF OF AN INCH TO 

ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED SINCE 900 AM. ADDITIONAL 

RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.



EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING NEAR STREAMS...CREEKS AND 

NEARBY FARMLAND. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS ON COUNTY ROADS AND IN LOW 

LYING AREAS. NEVER CROSS AREAS IN WHICH WATER COVERS THE ROADS.



MOST DEATHS IN FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR 

VEHICLE INTO AREAS IN WHICH WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. IT ONLY TAKES A

FOOT OR TWO OF WATER TO WASH MOST VEHICLES AWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN 

RISING WATERS SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.



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