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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA

923 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR

PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

     WALKER AND DADE



AT 925 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS BOTH

DADE AND WALKER COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS

OF ONE INCH PER HOUR IN A SEVERAL AREAS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS

WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY AND HEAVY RAIN COULD PERSIST FOR AN HOUR

OR TWO.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS AND 

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

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. 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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