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FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL

645 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORIES FOR...



    ...ORANGE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM...

    ...BREVARD COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM....



AT 645 PM...WEATEHR RADAR SHOWED A SLOW MOVING BAND OF STORMS WITH 

TORRNTIAL RAIN FROM NEAR ORLANDO AND SAINT CLOUD TO TITUSVILLE...

CAPE CANAVERAL AND COCOA. THE BAND OF STORMS ALSO EXTENDED WELL 

OFFSHORE BREVARD COUNTY. RADAR SHOWED THE RAIN GRADUALLY DIMINISHING 

IN INTENSITY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS ORANGE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES.



HOWEVER...STORMS OFFSHORE BREVARD COUNTY WERE STARTING TO MOVE 

TOWARD SHORE...AND AREAS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH BREVARD COUNTY WILL 

LIKELY EXPERIENCE ANOTHER ONE TO WO INCHES OF RAINFALL...POSSIBLY 

MORE IF THE RAINFALL PERSISTS INTO THE LATE EVENING.



OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT THE ORLANDO INTERNTIONAL AIRPORT.

OVER FOUR INCHES WAS REPORTED IN NORTH MERRITT ISLAND AT 645 PM... 

AND TOTALS BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES WERE RECIEVED FROM 

TITUSVILLE AND THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AROUND 6 PM.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE STORMS 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 FLASH FLOODING.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO 

FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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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