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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL

558 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE FOR CENTRAL ORANGE

AND WESTERN SEMINOLE COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM EDT...



AT 552 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS 

WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN DEVELOPING OVER THE METRO ORLANDO AREA. RADAR 

ESTIMATES INDICATE BETWEEN ONE AND ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS 

FALLEN FROM JUST EAST OF ALTAMONTE SPRINGS TO WINTER PARK AND NEAR 

THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN NEARLY 

STATIONARY AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE 

EXPECTED OVER THE SAME AREAS THROUGH 730 PM.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF...URBAN

AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE 

AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. WATER PONDING ON ROADWAYS WILL MAKE FOR 

DANGEROUS TRAVEL.



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