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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL

630 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001



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

CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



  SANGAMON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  LOGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  CASS COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  MENARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  WOODFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  MASON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  MACON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  DE WITT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  SCOTT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  TAZEWELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS

  MCLEAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS



  CITIES TO BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...SPRINGFIELD...DECATUR...BLOOMINGTON

  AND NORMAL...EAST PEORIA...PEKIN...CLINTON...LINCOLN...TAYLORVILLE

  AND JACKSONVILLE.



AT 625 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY

HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE AROUND MIDNIGHT 

FRIDAY NIGHT IN AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 51 FROM BLOOMINGTON 

TO DECATUR TO TAYLORVILLE. AN ADDITIONAL HALF TO 1 INCH OF RAIN 

COULD FALL BEFORE THE RAIN DIMINISHES FORM THE WEST BETWEEN 8 AND 10 

PM. MORE WIDESPREAD URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING COULD DEVELOP 

THIS EVENING. 



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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