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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI

433 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2001



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

WASHTENAW COUNTY UNTIL 1030 PM EDT...



AT 430 PM EDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER WASHTENAW 

COUNTY...BASICALLY BETWEEN CHELSEA AND MILAN.  SINCE 3 PM...NUMEROUS

SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE TRAINED OVER THE SAME 

LOCATION...ALONG A LINE FROM CHELSEA TO MILAN.  NATIONAL WEATHER 

SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT NEARLY 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN 

LIKELY HAD OCCURRED OVER NORTHWEST WASHTENAW COUNTY...NEAR CHELSEA...

DURING THE AFTERNOON.



A LENGTHY BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM TRAVERSE 

CITY TO NEAR MONROE AT 430 PM.  THIS BAND WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 

10 MPH OR LESS.  SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO 

CONTINUE OVER THE WEST AND SOUTH PARTS OF WASHTENAW COUNTY AT LEAST 

THROUGH 7 PM.  THIS COULD RESULT IN RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES 

IN ISOLATED LOCATIONS...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 

CHELSEA TO MILAN...BETWEEN 3 PM AND 7 PM THIS EVENING.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN WILL RESULT IN STANDING WATER ON

COUNTRY ROADS THAT DRAIN POORLY.  SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY 

BRIEFLY RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS.  DO NOT DRIVE OVER ANY FLOODED 

ROADWAYS.



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