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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL

510 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY FOR PEOPLE IN GREENE...SUMTER...PICKENS...HALE AND 

TUSCALOOSA COUNTIES. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED NEAR ONE TO TWO 

INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTY INTO WESTERN 

TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. ALSO THIS SAME TYPE OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED 

ALONG INTERSTATE 20 IN SUMTER AND GREENE COUNTIES. MORE 

THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO SUMTER AND GREENE COUNTIES AND WILL 

ONLY AGGRIVATE THE SITUATION. AN ADDITIONAL ONE OR TWO INCHES OF 

RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE BEEN ACROSS THIS 

REGION FOR THE PAST TWO HOURS...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 WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



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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