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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY

100 PM EDT THU JUN 7 2001



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

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT THURSDAY 

AFTERNOON FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN KENTUCKY...



     MONTGOMERY...POWELL...PERRY...FLOYD...KNOTT...MENIFEE...        

     PIKE...BREATHITT...LEE...BATH...MORGAN...

     WOLFE...LESLIE...ESTILL...MAGOFFIN AND LETCHER...



AT 1248 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN 

AND FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. THREE HOUR RAINFALL 

TOTALS ARE ESTIMATED TO BE THREE QUARTERS TO ONE INCH...WITH HIGHER 

AMOUNTS IN SOME AREAS.



RAIN HAS FALLEN ON ALREADY SATURATED SOILS AND EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM 

THESE STORMS 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. 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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