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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY

729 PM MDT MON JUL 23 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR

SOUTHERN NIOBRARA COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM...



AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN POSTED FOR

SOUTHERN NIOBRARA COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM.  HEAVY RAINFALL FROM A

SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM HAS CAUSED WATER LEVELS IN AREA STREAMS

AND LOW LYING AREAS TO RISE.  LANCE CREEK...NEAR THE CITY OF

LANCE CREEK...WAS NEAR BANKFUL ACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM A SHERIFF

DEPUTY.



DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM WEST OF LANCE CREEK TO

BETWEEN LANCE CREEK AND LUSK SINCE 630 PM HAVE BEEN UP TO THREE

AND ONE HALF INCHES.



AT 725 PM...THE STORM WAS BETWEEN LANCE CREEK AND LUSK...MOVING

TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.  HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE INTO THE CITY OF

LUSK BETWEEN 745 PM AND 8 PM.  THE STORM WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE

HEAVY RAIN...CAUSING STREAMS TO RISE AND CONSIDERABLE PONDING OF

LOW LYING AREAS.  THE STORM WILL SLOWLY WEAKEN THROUGH 830 PM.



A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN

NIOBRARA COUNTY UNTIL 9 PM.



PEOPLE LIVING NEAR STREAMS OR LOW LYING AREAS IN SOUTHERN

NIOBRARA COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF HIGH WATER AND

MINOR FLOODING.  MOVE ANY IMPORTANT ITEMS TO HIGHER GROUND.



IF YOU ENCOUNTER FLOODING...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS A FLOODED AREA.



$$

WEILAND

WCJIN-WYNE

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