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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO

535 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2001



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

GENEVIEVE AND ST. FRANCOIS COUNTIES UNTIL 900 AM CDT...



WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT SEVERAL ROUNDS OF 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN DRIFTING ACROSS SOUTHEAST 

MISSOURI SINCE 330 AM...PRODUCING BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN 

A FEW SPOTS.   ANOTHER BAND OF HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER SOUTHERN 

JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 530 AM...AND WILL BE DRIFTING INTO ST. FRANCOIS 

AND STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTIES BETWEEN 530 AM AND 7 AM.



SOME CITIES AND TOWNS AFFECTED BY THIS ADVISORY INCLUDE...

FARMINGTON...STE. GENEVIEVE...WEINBARTEN...AND BONNE TERRE.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



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.



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