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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

227 AM CDT MON MAY 14 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LEWIS

AND MARION COUNTIES UNTIL 500 AM CDT...



AT 227 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF 

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES 

NORTHWEST OF MONTICELLO TO NEAR MONROE CITY.  RADAR ESTIMATES OF UP 

TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER NORTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF 

LEWIS COUNTY SINCE 10 PM.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTH OUT 

OF SOUTHEAST IOWA...BRINGING AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN BY 

4 AM.  



SOME CITIES AND TOWNS AFFECTED BY THIS ADVISORY INCLUDE...

MONTICELLO...CANTON...LA GRANGE...EWING...MAYWOOD...PALMYRA...

WARREN AND HANNIBAL.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE 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. UNDERPASSES AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO

FLOODING DURING TIMES OF HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE AVOIDED. IF YOUR

VEHICLE DOES STALL IN RISING WATERS...ABANDON IT AND MOVE TO HIGHER

GROUND.



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BRITT

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