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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

1247 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001





* THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

  AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN

  SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA



* ORLEANS...JEFFERSON...UPPER ST. BERNARD AND UPPER PLAQUEMINES

  PARISHES



* UNTIL 300 PM CDT



AT 1245 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM

NEAR MARRERO TO NEW ORLEANS...AND FROM NEAR LAFITTE TO NEAR

CHALMETTE AND VIOLET. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AND

TRAINING OVER THE SAME AREA. STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN

REPORTED IN THE CHALMETTE AREA. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF

ONE TO THREE INCHES PER HOUR WERE OCCURRING WHICH WILL CAUSE

ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF STREETS...SMALL STREAMS...AND LOW LYING

AREAS.



MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS IF

THE RAINS PERSIST AND FLOODING BECOMES MORE IMMINENT.

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