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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL

725 PM CDT SUN JUL 1 2001



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN

SOUTHWEST ALABAMA HAS BEEN CANCELLED...



AT 721 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE 

THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND WAS NO 

LONGER PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA.



NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING WAS REPORTED...HOWEVER SEVERAL TRAFFIC 

ACCIDENTS WERE REPORTED TO HAVE OCCURRED DUE TO THE RAIN SLICKED 

ROADS AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS.  



ALTHOUGH THE RAIN IS ENDING...SOME MINOR PONDING OF WATER OVER LOW 

LYING...FLOOD PRONE AREAS COULD POSE A THREAT...ESPECIALLY TO 

MOTORSITS ALONG THE I-65 CORRIDOR...THROUGH ABOUT 800 PM.  MOTORISTS 

SHOULD REMAIN CAUTIOUS WHILE WHILE DRIVING...AS ROADWAYS WILL REMAIN 

SLICK...WITH SOME PONDING OF WATER...FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.  

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