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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL

358 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR

PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN NORTHEAST IOWA

     DUBUQUE



SOME LOCATIONS IN THIS ADVISORY INCLUDE PEOSTA...AND SOUTHERN PARTS 

OF THE CITY OF DUBUQUE. SOME HIGHWAYS AFFECTED INCLUDE 61...151...52 

...COUNTY 963...SWISS VALLEY ROAD...AND LAKE ELEANOR ROAD.



AT 353 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES HEAVY 

RAIN WAS FALLING IN A 7 MILE WIDE AREA FROM PEOSTA TO CRYSTAL LAKE 

CAVE...WITH DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 1.2 INCHES OF RAIN 

HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM.



THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPING 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.



LAT...LON 4250 9067 4239 9052 4237 9094 4256 9093



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