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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA

825 AM EDT WED JUL 25 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY FOR...

  GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

  SOUTHERN MURRAY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA

  SOUTHERN WHITFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA



EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM EDT.



AT 825 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 

VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL GORDON COUNTY FROM 

AROUND CALHOUN TO RESACA...THEN NORTH INTO SOUTHERN WHITFIELD AND 

MURRAY COUNTIES NEAR TILTON AND INDUSTRIAL CITY TO NEAR CHATSWORTH. 

AS MUCH AS 3 OR MORE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THIS AREA EARLY 

THIS MORNING AND MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

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

AND AREAS 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. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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