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KYC025-065-071-119-129-153-193-195-197-237-071700-



URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY

921 AM EDT THU JUN 7 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM EDT THURSDAY 

AFTERNOON FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN KENTUCKY...

     POWELL...PERRY...FLOYD...KNOTT...PIKE...     

BREATHITT...LEE...WOLFE...ESTILL AND MAGOFFIN



AT 912 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SLOW 

MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DRAPED WEST TO EAST ACROSS EASTERN 

KENTUCKY. RAINFALL RATES ALONG THE LINE WERE ESTIMATED TO BE THREE 

QUARTERS TO ONE INCH PER HOUR.



RAINFALL OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS HAS SATURATED THE SOIL AND ANY 

ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION WILL QUICKLY FIND ITS WAYS INTO CREEKS AND 

STREAMS.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS AND 

STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO 

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



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.



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