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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL

1040 AM CDT TUE JUL 31 2001



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

STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON

FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



     SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA...SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA AND SOUTHERN OKALOOSA   

     IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA.



     SOUTHERN BALDWIN IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.



AT 1035 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A CLUSTER OF 

THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR FOLEY ALABAMA TO NEAR EGLIN AFB IN FLORIDA 

MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD.  



RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL EXCEEDED TWO AND A HALF INCHES OVER 

PORTIONS OF THIS AREA DURING THE PAST THREE HOURS. THE HEAVIEST 

RAINFALL OCCURRED FROM PENSACOLA TO MILTON FLORIDA. OFFICIALS IN 

ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA HAVE REPORTED WATER COVERING THE ROADS 

AROUND PENSACOLA. 



AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE OVER THIS 

SAME AREA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OFFSHORE.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING ADDITIONAL RAINFALL BEFORE 

DISSIPATING LATE IN THE AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING. WHILE ADDITIONAL 

FLOODING IN POORLY DRAINED AREAS AND LOW SPOTS IS 

POSSIBLE...RAINFALL RATES ARE NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO WARRANT FLASH FLOOD 

WARNINGS AT THIS TIME.



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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