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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

1130 AM CDT WED AUG 8 2001



* THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

  FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...



* UPPER JEFFERSON



* UNTIL 130 PM CDT



AT 1125 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE EAST BANK OF

JEFFERSON PARISH....MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES PER HOUR. RADAR RAINFALL

ESTIMATES ALONG WITH SURFACE REPORTS INDICATED FROM AROUND TWO TO

FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 1030 AND 1130 AM ACROSS THE

EAST BANK OF JEFFERSON PARISH. SERIOUS STREET FLOODING WITH WATER

EXTENDING FROM CURB TO CURB WAS REPORTED BY JEFFERSON PARISH

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.



ALTHOUGH RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL INTENSITY WAS DECREASING...

ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN THROUGH NOON WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP WATER HIGH

ON STREETS INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS.



MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS IF

THE RAINS PERSIST AND FLOODING BECOMES MORE SERIOUS.

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