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FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL

556 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001



...AN URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN  

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTIES INCLUDING BRANDON...PLANT CITY...AND TAMPA.



...AN URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN 

PINELLAS COUNTY...INCLUDING LARGO...PINELLAS PARK...SAINT 

PETERSBURG...SAINT PETERSBURG BEACH...AND SEMINOLE...



...UNTIL 630 PM EDT.



AT 535 PM EDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED 2.12 INCHES OF RAIN IN

A 40 MINUTE TIME PERIOD JUST NORTH OF SEMINOLE.



AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO 

INDICATE A LARGE AREA OF RAIN...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY WITH EMBEDDED 

THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PINELLAS AND 

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTIES...AFFECTING AREAS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE 

FROM LARGO TO PLANT CITY. ALL OF THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE 

MOVING TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING

AREAS AND INTERSECTIONS. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AND ALLOW 

EXTRA TIME WHILE DRIVING EARLY THIS EVENING.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY.

VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.





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