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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

459 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001



...HEAVY RAINS TO CONTINUE OVER VERMILION...LAFAYETTE...IBERIA...AND

UPPER SAINT MARTIN PARISHES INTO THE EVENING...



REPEATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON HAVE DROPPED AN

ESTIMATED 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN FROM SAINT MARTINVILLE AND CADE

SOUTHWESTWARD TO NEAR ERATH. ANOTHER POCKET OF 4 TO 5 INCH RAINFALLS

EXTENDS FROM NEAR GUEYDAN TO SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE. OTHER WIDESPREAD

REPORTS OF 3 INCHES PLUS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THROUGHOUT THE AREA.

SOME MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS HEAVY RAINFALL...

PARTICULARLY PORTIONS OF DUCHAMP ROAD IN THE CADE AREA AND HIGHWAY

96 IN THE SAINT MARTINVILLE AREA.



THE BACK EDGE OF THE ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AT 10 TO 15

MPH ACROSS LAFAYETTE AND VERMILION PARISHES THROUGH 7 PM. ALTHOUGH

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE WEAKENING...AN ADDITIONAL

1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS MOST LOCATIONS.



HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS RAPIDLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE

YOUR VEHICLE WHERE WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE ROAD.

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