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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX

624 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001



...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT...



DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER 

MUCH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT THIS HOUR...EXCEPT FOR THE SOUTHEAST 

CORNER. MAXIMUM RAINFALL RATES OF 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES AN HOUR WERE 

INDICATED. SINCE THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SO SLOW...THE HEAVY 

RAINS COULD PERSIST FOR AN HOUR OR TWO...CAUSING AREAS OF HIGH WATER 

TO FORM. 



MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HIGH STANDING WATER ON LOW LYING ROADS 

AND IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. DO 

NOT DRIVE INTO HIGH WATER AREAS. THE DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO CROSS 

SAFELY. COMMUNIITIES SUCH AS CONROE...THE WOODLANDS...PINEHURST AND 

CUT AND SHOOT ARE AT RISK FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING THIS 

EVENING. 

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