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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS

1145 PM CST THU MAR 15 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR SEDGWICK

COUNTY UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING...



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM 

FLOOD ADVISORY...FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING.

THIS MAINLY PERTAINS TO THE COWSKIN CREEK...EXTENDING FROM COLWICH 

THROUGH WEST WICHITA. 



AT 1120 PM CST...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT 45TH STREET 

NORTH...BETWEEN 167TH WEST AND 183RD WEST...WAS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH 

WATER ALONG THE COWSKIN CREEK. IN ADDITION...AT 940 PM CST...THE SEDGWICK 

COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED FLOODING...CONTINUING FROM THE 

COWSKIN CREEK...AT THE INTERSECTION OF 119TH WEST STREET AND TAFT IN 

WEST WICHITA. 



RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINS...WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF 

THE COWSKIN CREEK NEAR RESIDENTIAL AREAS...STREETS AND 

UNDERPASSES...AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. 

AVOID DRIVING THRU WATER-COVERED STREETS...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT.



REPEATING...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR

SEDGWICK COUNTY UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY.



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