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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

500 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2001



...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR

JEFFERSON...MONROE AND SOUTHWESTERN ST. LOUIS COUNTIES UNTIL 815 AM

CDT...



BETWEEN 440 AND 450 AM...THE JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE 

REPORTED THAT THE JUNCTION OF INTERSTATE 55 AND HIGHWAY 141 WAS 

CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.   CONSTRUCTION IN THE AREA HAS CAUSED 

WATER TO POND ON THE ROAD...TO A DEPTH OF AROUND 1 FOOT.



AT 5 AM...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY 

RAIN HAD EXITED SOUTHERN ST LOUIS COUNTY...AND THE RAINFALL HAD 

TAPERED OFF CONSIDERABLY OVER NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY.  MODERATE 

TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN WAS STILL FALLING OVER ABOUT THE SOUTHERN 

HALF OF JEFFERSON COUNTY...BUT CURRENT TRENDS SUGGEST THAT THE HEAVY 

RAINS IN SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY WILL ALSO DIMINISH BETWEEN 530 

AND 630 AM.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. UNDERPASSES AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO

FLOODING DURING TIMES OF HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE AVOIDED. IF YOUR

VEHICLE DOES STALL IN RISING WATERS...ABANDON IT AND MOVE TO HIGHER

GROUND.



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

DANGERS OF FLOOD WATERS. THOSE LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD

CAREFULLY MONITOR WATER LEVELS OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.



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