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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL

930 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL

STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING

FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

     SOUTHERN MOBILE



AT 924 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN.  RADAR DATA INDICATE ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO ONE AND A HALF 

INCHES PER HOUR HAVE BEEN RECEIVED ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHEASTERN 

PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY...SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 FROM BAYOU LA BATRE 

TO BROOKLEY DOWNTOWN AIRPORT.  INDIVIDUAL STORM CELLS WERE MOVING 

NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE MINOR 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. 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.



HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD NORTH THE REST OF THIS MORNING TO 

INCLUDE MOST OF THE CITY OF MOBILE.  MOST AREAS WILL RECEIVE 3 HOUR 

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF BETWEEN A HALF AND AN INCH AND A HALF...WITH 

ISOLATED THREE HOUR AMOUNTS OF UP TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE IN SMALL 

AREAS OF THE CITY.  EXPECT RAIN TO TAPER OFF AFTER NOON AND ENDING 

IN MOST AREAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

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