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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA

705 AM EDT WED JUL 25 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY FOR...

  BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA



EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EDT.



AT 700 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS 

WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER BARTOW COUNTY. THE 

THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. RADAR IS INDICATING UP 

TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST THREE HOURS IN 

LOCALIZED SPOTS AND AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN COULD FALL BEFORE THE 

THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISH OR MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS 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. 

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