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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

708 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001



...HEAVY RAINS HAVE COME TO AN END ACROSS VERMILION...LAFAYETTE...

IBERIA...AND UPPER SAINT MARTIN PARISHES...



REPEATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON DROPPED AN

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

SOUTHWESTWARD TO NEAR ERATH. OTHER POCKETS OF ESTIMATED 4 TO 5 INCH

RAINFALLS WERE FOUND FROM DUSON AND SCOTT TO NORTH OF KAPLAN...AS

WELL AS NEAR THE LAKE FAUSSE STATE PARK AREA IN SOUTHEASTERN UPPER

SAINT MARTIN PARISH. SOME MINOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED ALONG PORTIONS

OF DUCHAMP ROAD IN THE CADE AREA AND HIGHWAY 96 IN THE SAINT

MARTINVILLE AREA.



WITH THE HEAVIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NOW EAST OF THE AREA...

THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELED.

ADDITIONAL PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN ARE LIKELY TO CROSS THE AREA THIS

EVENING...BUT HEAVIER RAINFALL TOTALS WHICH WOULD AGGRAVATE THE

ALREADY HIGH WATER ARE NOT EXPECTED.

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