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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT/URBAN SMALL STREAM ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL

1253 PM CST MON MAR 12 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOBILE COUNTY IN

SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 215 PM...



AT 1250 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT A

LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO ADVANCE EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHWEST

ALABAMA AND INTO THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE.  THESE

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN AT THE NATIONAL

WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MOBILE IN THE LAST HOUR.  THESE HEAVY RAINS

COMBINED WITH THE HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT HAVE RESULTED IN A FLASH

FLOOD WARNING FOR MOBILE COUNTY.  SOME PRELIMINARY REPORTS INCLUDE 6

TO 7 INCHES OF WATER OVER WATER AND CANAL STREETS NEAR INTERSTATE 10

IN DOWNTOWN MOBILE...WITH FLOODING OBSERVED OVER AIRPORT BOULEVARD

NEAR THE MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT.  AS RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS

CONTINUES...FLASH FLOODING CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE

OVER MOBILE COUNTY THROUGH 215 PM.



ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY

RAINS FROM GENERALLY MOBILE TO NEAR LUVERNE ALABAMA WILL CONTINUE

EASTWARD AT 25 TO 30 MPH WHILE WIDESPREAD MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES IN

THE WAKE OF THE LINE ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST

MISSISSIPPI.  THE HEAVY RAINS FROM TODAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS

OVER THE SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN MINOR FLOODING OF

SMALL STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND

AN INTERIOR PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE.



REMEMBER...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.



FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

MOBILE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MOB.

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