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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK

905 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR

PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

     CANADIAN...CLEVELAND...KINGFISHER...LINCOLN...LOGAN...

     OKLAHOMA...POTTAWATOMIE...AND SEMINOLE.



AT 900 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED VERY HEAVY

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO TRACK SLOWLY EAST ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL

OKLAHOMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE TRACKING REPEATEDLY ACROSS THE SAME

AREAS...AND MAY CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE

AREAS. HOURLY RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN

SOME AREAS... AND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO THE LATE EVENING HOURS IN

SOME PARTS OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS

AND FARM LANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS COULD BE 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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