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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL

557 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE FOR SOUTHERN 

BREVARD COUNTY EXTENDED UNTIL 700 PM EDT...



AT 557 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STORMS

WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OVER THE MELBOURNE AREA...AND EXTENDING OUT 

TO THE BARRIER ISLANDS FROM INDIALANTIC TO COCOA BEACH. RADAR ALSO

INDICATES BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE 

MELBOURNE AND WEST MELBOURNE AREAS. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 

OFFICE IN MELBOURNE HAS PICKED UP 2.22 INCHES OF RAIN FROM THE 

STORMS THUS FAR.



ALTHOUGH THE RAINFALL WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF THROUGH 7 PM...MANY 

ROADS WILL REMAIN WATER COVERED THROUGH MID EVENING...AND PONDED 

AREAS WILL BE SLOW TO DRAIN SINCE GROUND CONDITIONS ARE SATURATED.



THE MELBOURNE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS NUMEROUS VEHICLE ACCIDENTS 

RELATED TO THE TORRENTIAL RAIN. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT 

FOR WATER COVERED ROADS IN SOUTH BREVARD COUNTY THIS EVENING. REDUCE 

YOUR SPEED...AND 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. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF...URBAN

AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE

AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



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