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SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL

1055 PM CST THU MAR 1 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SMALL STREAM 

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING FOR PEOPLE 

IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

     WAYNE...GREENE AND PERRY



AT 1055 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A 

THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS 

PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM RUNNELSTOWN,MS TO STATE LINE,MS.  THE 

LINE WAS NEARLY STATIONARY...WHILE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST ALONG THE 

LINE AROUND 25 MPH.



RADAR INDICATES THAT ISOLATED LOCATIONS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED UP TO 

3 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE LATE THIS AFTERNOON.  THROUGH 3 AM CST FRIDAY... 

ANOTHER INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN COULD FALL IN ASSOCIATION WITH 

STRONG STORMS CONTINUALLY MOVING OVER THE SAME LOCATION.  HOWEVER... 

MOST LOCALES WILL RECEIVE LESS THAN A HALF INCH OF ADDITIONAL 

RAIN.    



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS PAST EVENINGS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS 

WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.  IF YOU LIVE 

IN ...OR NEAR.. ANY OF THE FLOOD PRONE AREAS LISTED ABOVE BE 

CAREFUL.



THE NEXT STATEMENT CONCERNING THIS MATTER WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 3 AM 

CST. 



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. 

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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