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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL

250 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT FOR LEON

AND NORTHERN WAKULLA COUNTIES...



...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FLORIDA BIG BEND...

FLORIDA EASTERN PANHANDLE...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH GEORGIA AND

SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...



DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON...RAINBANDS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM

BARRY WILL CONTINUE TO SPIRAL FROM THE ADJACENT GULF COAST NORTH

THROUGH FLORIDA AND INTO GEORGIA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST

ALABAMA. THESE BANDS WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN AND EMBEDDED

THUNDERSTORMS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OCCURRING FROM EASTERN WAKULLA

NORTH THROUGH EASTERN LEON IN FLORIDA...EXTENDING NORTH NORTHEAST

THROUGH THOMAS AND COLQUITT COUNTIES IN GEORGIA.



SINCE YESTERDAY MORNING...THE HIGHEST RAINFALL TOTALS HAVE OCCURRED

ACROSS GULF...FRANKLIN AND LIBERTY COUNTIES WHERE DOPPLER RADAR

ESTIMATED UP TO EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN...AND UP TO TEN INCHES JUST

OFFSHORE. SIX TO EIGHT INCHES WERE ESTIMATED ACROSS THE WESTERN BIG 

BEND. BY 305 PM EDT...THE TALLAHASSEE AIRPORT STATION HAS MEASURED 

6.85 INCHES (3.63 INCHES SINCE MIDNIGHT). LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGERS 

AND OTHER OFFICIALS HAVE REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED AND 

IMPASSABLE. ADDITIONAL EXPECTED ACCUMULATIONS OF AT LEAST ONE INCH 

WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING.



ALTHOUGH ONLY MINOR FLOODING WAS INDICATED ACROSS SOUTHERN GEORGIA...

ADDITIONAL EXPECTED ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO TWO INCHES WILL LIKELY

GENERATE AT LEAST MINOR FLOODING. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

SHOULD ALSO BE ALERT TO MINOR STREET AND STREAM FLOODING.



THE INTENSITY OF THE RAINFALL WILL DECREASE AFTER SUNDOWN. HOWEVER

LOCALIZED FLOODING REMAINS A POSSIBILITY AND ALL RESIDENTS SHOULD

CLOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER.



MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS

FLOODED ROADS OR DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO

UNKNOWN DEPTH. RESIDENTS LIVING NEAR AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOODING

SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS UNTIL ALL RAIN HAS

ENDED.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST

WEATHER INFORMATION.



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