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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY

1148 AM CDT THU JUL 19 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR

PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

     PERRY



IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

     JACKSON



  INCLUDING...BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS        

  PERRYVILLE...MURPHYSBORO...GRAND TOWER...DE SOTO...CARBONDALE      

  AVA AND BREWER



AT 1145 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SWATH OF 

LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN EARLIER THIS MORNING...MAINLY IN EASTERN 

PERRY AND WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY...WITH ESTIMATED TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 

INCHES WIDESPREAD AND EVEN SOME ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS.



AT 1135 AM CDT...LOCAL OFFICIALS IN PERRY COUNTY REPORTED DITCHES AND 

CREEKS AT BANKFULL...AND SOME WATER ON ROADWAYS IN BREWER. 



AT 1147 CDT AM...RADAR SHOWS THE HEAVIEST RAIN MOVING SOUTH OF PERRY 

AND JACKSON COUNTY...HOWEVER SOME MORE WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS WITH 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WERE MOVING IN FROM THE NORTH. THE AREA HAS 

ALREADY RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL AND THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF 

ADDITIONAL RAINS...PERHAPS AS MUCH AS ANOTHER 1/2 TO 1 INCH.



AS A RESULT...EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL CAUSE 

FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN 

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

AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



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