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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

400 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SLIDELL HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING

FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI

     PEARL RIVER



AT 400 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST NORTH OF PICAYUNE. ISOLATED RAINFALL TOTALS UP

TO 3 OR 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN JUST NORTH AND EAST OF PICAYUNE. SLOW-

MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE AREA UNTIL 430 TO 5 PM. THE

WEST AND EAST HOBOLOCHITTO CREEK WILL HAVE PROBLEMS HANDLING THE

HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME SMALL STREAMS FEEDING INTO TO THIS CREEK MAY

EXCEED BANKFUL.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDER-PASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



EVERYONE IS URGED TO USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. AVOID FLOODED AREAS

BY WAITING FOR THE WATERS TO GO DOWN OR BY USING A DIFFERENT ROUTE.

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