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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

100 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 MISSISSIPPI



* HARRISON...JACKSON



* UNTIL 300 PM CDT



AT 1258 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS HARRISON AND

JACKSON COUNTIES...EAST OF A LYMAN TO SAUCIER LINE...FROM NEAR BILOXI

TO WEST OF VANCLEAVE...AND FROM GAUTIER TO NEAR VANCLEAVE. THE

THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AND NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MILES PER HOUR

AND TRAINING OVER THE SAME AREA.



RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR WERE

COMMON WITH LOCAL RATES OF TWO TO THREE INCHES PER HOUR INDICATED.

THIS WILL RESULT IN 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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