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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL

1130 AM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WOODFORD COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL 

WHICH PRODUCED THE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING ACROSS NORTHERN WOODFORD

COUNTY...HAS SHIFTED WELL EAST OF THE COUNTY. WOODFORD COUNTY ESDA 

REPORTED THE WATER WAS RECEDING IN THE AREAS THAT WERE HIT THE 

HARDEST...ALONG ROUTE 89 FROM CAZENOVIA NORTH TO LOW POINT WERE 2.5 TO 

LOCALLY 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN EARLIER THIS MORNING. SOME MINOR 

FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. 

THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELLED.



MOTORISTS SHOULD STILL EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHERN

WOODFORD COUNTY WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL FELL THIS MORNING. IF YOU SEE

WATER COVERING THE ROAD AHEAD OF YOU...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS IT.



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