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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY

1159 AM CDT THU JUN 21 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR

PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

     LIVINGSTON...MCCRACKEN...NORTHERN GRAVES AND MARSHALL



IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

     POPE...HARDIN AND MASSAC



AT 1152 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO AN INCH AN HOUR...STRETCHING FROM 

KARNAK...SOUTHWARD TO PADUCAH...TO JUST WEST OF FANCY FARM. THE LINE 

OF STORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HEAVY RAIN SHOULD MOVE PAST KARBERS 

RIDGE...ONWARD TO SMITHLAND AND BENTON KENTUCKY BETWEEN 1245 PM TO 

115 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING ONE TO ONE 

AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN WITHIN AN HOUR.



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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