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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA

205 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001



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

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST SATURDAY

AFTERNOON FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA

     JOHNSON...IOWA...LINN AND BENTON



IN SOUTHEAST IOWA

     WASHINGTON AND KEOKUK



AT 200 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES HEAVY 

RAIN WAS FALLING OVER THE ADVISORY AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 

THAT BETWEEN ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST 3 

HOURS OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. LINN AND BENTON COUNTY SHERIFFS 

DEPARTMENT REPORTED SOME CULVERT FLOODING IN WALFORD. OTHER MINOR 

FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN WHAT CHEER IN KEOKUK COUNTY. HEAVY RAIN 

WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BY LATE AFTERNOON...WITH AN ADDITIONAL ONE 

HALF INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLE.



WITH THE GROUND STILL FROZEN...MUCH OF ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL RUN 

OFF...QUICKLY FILLING DITCHES...STREAMS...CREEKS...AND SMALL RIVERS. 

STORM DRAINS MAY ALSO BECOME CLOGGED WITH SNOW AND ICE...WHICH COULD 

LEAD TO ADDITIONAL URBAN FLOODING. ALSO...COUNTRY ROADS AND 

FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING 

AREAS WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



LAT...LON 4227 9140 4121 9156 4121 9232 4227 9225



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