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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

120 PM CST SUN FEB 25 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR THE

FOLLOWING PARISHES IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST TERREBONNE...

LOWER LAFOURCHE...LOWER JEFFERSON...AND LOWER PLAQUEMINES.



A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAS PERSISTED

ACROSS PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA SINCE MID MORNING.

DOPPLER RADAR AND SATELLITE RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW 2 TO 4 INCHES

OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN FROM NEAR COCODRIE TO GALLIANO...GOLDEN MEADOW...

TO THE NORTH PORTION OF BARATARIA BAY.



AT 115 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH

HEAVY RAIN REFORMING OVER THE ADVISORY AREA WITH RAINFALL RATES OF

ONE TO ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR.



THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER AND SOME FLOODING OF

ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER

COVERS THE ROAD.

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