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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA

455 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY FOR...

  NORTHERN DAWSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA



EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT.



INCLUDING...BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...      

         DAWSONVILLE...JUNO...AND FAUSETT LAKE.



AT 455 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY

RAIN ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN DAWSON COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES OF

ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR ARE LIKELY IN THIS AREA...WITH RAINFALL

TOTALS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES POSSIBLE.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS AND

STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS.



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.



PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS CAN LEAD TO HYDROPLANING AND LOSS OF

VEHICLE CONTROL. HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO LEAD TO SUDDEN LOSS OF 

VISIBILITY. SLOW DOWN WHEN DRIVING INTO HEAVY RAINFALL.

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