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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL

325 AM CDT THU MAY 17 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR PEOPLE

IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN SOUTHEAST IOWA

     LEE AND VAN BUREN



IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

     SCOTLAND AND CLARK



IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

     MCDONOUGH AND HANCOCK



AT 324 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A

LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN...EXTENDING 

FROM KEOSAUQUA TO NEAR FORT MADISON...AND LA HARPE. DOPPLER RADAR 

ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST 90 

MINUTES WITHIN THIS LINE OF STORMS. THIS LINE WILL CONTINUE TO SAG 

SOUTH INTO SCOTLAND...CLARK...HANCOCK AND MCDONOUGH COUNTIES THROUGH 

5 AM. 



THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOP AND MOVING OVER 

PORTIONS OF THE ADVISORY AREA...LEADING TO VERY HIGH RAINFALL RATES 

AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF MINOR FLOODING IN THE ADVISORY AREA.



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. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



LAT...LON 4058 9049 4032 9055 4045 9230 4075 9214



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