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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI

420 AM EDT TUE MAY 15 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM 

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR THE 

FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



  MARQUETTE...DELTA...



THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

  GWINN...ROCK...RAPID RIVER...AND GLADSTONE



AT 415 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 

LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM CHAMPION 

TO GWINN AND RAPID RIVER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 

MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AS MUCH AS 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE 

FALLEN ALONG THIS LINE SINCE 1 AM. 



ALTHOUGH THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DIMINISHING...THEY WILL BRING 

ADDITIONAL LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF AROUND AN INCH BY THE TIME THEY 

END AROUND 6 AM. THE THREAT OF FLOODING IS GREATEST AROUND GWINN... 

MCFARLAND...ROCK AND RAPID RIVER. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... 

HIGHWAYS...STREETS AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING 

SPOTS.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS. IT TAKES ONLY SIX INCHES OF FAST MOVING WATER TO 

SWEEP A CAR AWAY. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO 

HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO

FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



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