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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

1140 PM CST TUE FEB 27 2001



...STREET AND LOW AREA FLOODING IN PROGRESS...



SOME STREETS...UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS ARE BEING FLOODED BY THE

PERSISTENT RAINS WHICH FELL EARLIER THIS MORNING.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS

FOR THE THREE HOUR PERIOD FROM 8 AM TO 11 AM AVERAGED BETWEEN ONE

HALF TO ONE AND HALF INCHES.  WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED

GROUND...MOST OF THE RAIN IS RUNNING OFF INTO AND FLOODING LOW AREAS

SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...STREAMS...AND CITY STREETS.



RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE AREAS OF FLOODING AND

AVOID THEM.  RADAR DOES SHOW A BREAK IN THE RAINFALL FOR

NOW...HOWEVER MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA LATER

THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

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