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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS

857 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL

STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT SATURDAY

EVENING...FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

     WESTERN GEARY AND WESTERN MORRIS



IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

     CENTRAL RILEY



IN CENTRAL KANSAS

     EASTERN DICKINSON



SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...

     MILFORD LAKE...KEATS...RANDOLPH...RILEY...OGDEN...CHAPMAN...

     WOODBINE...LATIMER...HOPE...HERINGTON...BURDICK AND JUNCTION

     CITY



AT 855 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN CONTINUING FROM STORMS THAT WERE TRAINING NORTHEAST OVER THE 

SAME AREA THAT HAS RECEIVED HEAVY RAINS SINCE 630 PM THIS EVENING.

RADAR ESTIMATES THAT ALONG A LINE FROM HOPE NORTH NORTHEAST TO JUST 

WEST OF JUNCTION CITY...TO RILEY AND RANDOLPH HAVE RECEIVED UPWARDS 

OF ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 630 PM THIS EVENING.  



RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS AND 

STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY ROADS AND FARMLANDS 

ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE 

SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING OCCURS MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT

STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE

LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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