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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY

615 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR

PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

     PERRY



AT 609 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN...RANGING FROM ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO INCHES...HAD FALLEN 

SINCE 5 PM ACROSS CENTRAL PERRY COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS 

LOCATED BETWEEN INTERSTATE 55 AND HIGHWAY 61 FROM BREWER TO THE 

NORTHERN END OF PERRYVILLE...AND FROM SILVER LAKE...SOUTH TO YOUNT 

AND BIEHLE.



AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO TO ONE INCH OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED TO 

PERSIST ACROSS SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM. THIS WILL 

LIKELY CAUSE LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS BETWEEN YOUNT 

AND BIEHLE...ONWARD TO APPLE CREEK. NORTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF 

THE CITY OF PERRYVILLE MAY ALSO SEEM SOME FLOODING IN LOW LYING 

AREAS.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM 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.



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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