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WGUS74 KMOB 261717

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ALC097-261900-



URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL

1155 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2001



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

STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON 

FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

     SOUTHERN MOBILE



AT 1150 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DATA INDICATES 

RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS HAVE BEEN DECREASING. UP TO NEARLY THREE 

INCHES OF RAIN WAS RECEIVED IN SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE 

COUNTY...SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 FROM BAYOU LA BATRE TO BROOKLEY 

DOWNTOWN AIRPORT. HIGHER AMOUNTS WERE INDICATED OVER MISSISSIPPI 

SOUND SOUTH OF BAYOU LA BATRE...BUT THOSE HAVE REMAINED OVER WATER 

THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS AND HAVE SHOWN NO SIGN OF MOVING ONSHORE THUS 

FAR. INDIVIDUAL STORM CELLS CONTINUED MOVING NORTH AT 25 TO 30 MILES 

AN HOUR.  



HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AS PRECIPITATION CONTINUES 

SPREADING NORTH INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON TO INCLUDE MOST OF THE 

CITY OF MOBILE.  MOST AREAS WILL RECEIVE 3 HOUR RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 

BETWEEN A QUARTER INCH AND A HALF INCH... WITH ISOLATED THREE HOUR 

AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE IN SMALL RESTRICTED PARTS  OF THE 

CITY.  EXPECT RAIN TO CONTINUE TAPERING OFF LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND 

ENDING IN MOST AREAS BY NIGHTFALL.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS SYSTEM 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.

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