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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL

635 PM EST MON MAR 19 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY

UNTIL 930 PM EST...



PERSISTENT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL HAS FALLEN ACROSS VOLUSIA 

COUNTY SINCE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 625 PM...A WEATHER SPOTTER IN

DELTONA REPORTED 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL AND STREET FLOODING IN 

LOW-LYING INTERSECTIONS AND ALSO MINOR FLOODING OF YARDS AND LOW 

LYING AREAS IN THE DELTONA AREA. 



DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 

ACROSS PORTIONS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY MAINLY FROM INTERSTATE 4 EASTWARD 

TO THE COAST TODAY. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE 

THROUGH THIS EVENING ESPECIALLY ACROSS COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY AS 

PERSISTENT BANDS OF RAIN MOVE IN OFF THE ATLANTIC. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. 



ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS 

AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. 



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. 



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