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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL

915 AM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT ACROSS SOUTHERN MADISON

COUNTY AND ALL OF MARSHALL COUNTY UNTIL 10 AM...AND ACROSS EASTERN

MORGAN COUNTY UNTIL 1130 AM...



WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS...CONTINUES TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY

ACROSS NORTHEAST ALABAMA.  THE HEAVIEST RAINS SO FAR THIS MORNING

HAVE FALLEN OVER SOUTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY...WESTERN MARSHALL

COUNTY...AND EASTERN MORGAN COUNTY.



RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW THE HEAVIEST RAINS OVER SOUTHEAST

MADISON COUNTY HAVE BEEN IN THE OWENS CROSSROADS AND NEW HOPE

AREAS.  RAINFALL ESTIMATES ARE 3 TO 6 INCHES ACROSS THAT AREA.

REPORTS INDICATE WATER IS RUNNING OVER MOST ROADS IN THE AREA...

INCLUDING PARTS OF HIGHWAY 431.



RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OVER MARSHALL COUNTY...INDICATE 3 TO 5

INCHES HAVE FALLEN JUST SOUTHWEST OF GRANT ACROSS NORTHWEST

MARSHALL COUNTY.  3 TO 7 INCHES HAVE FALLEN OVER WESTERN MARSHALL

COUNTY...GENERALLY FROM ARAB AND UNION GROVE WESTWARD TO THE MORGAN-

MARSHALL COUNTY LINE.  THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS HAVE LIKELY FALLEN IN

THE RUTH AREA.  FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY...

ALONG WITH SOME TREES KNOCKED DOWN FROM SOIL EROSION.



ACROSS EASTERN MORGAN COUNTY...RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW 3 TO 7

INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN FROM LACEYS SPRING SOUTHWARD TO APPLE

GROVE...CENTER GROVE...AND RYAN CROSSROADS AREAS.  THE HEAVIEST

AMOUNTS HAVE LIKELY FALLEN NEAR APPLE GROVE.



THE LATEST RADAR IMAGERY STILL SHOWS A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO

VERY HEAVY RAINS OVER THESE THREE COUNTIES.  CONDITIONS WILL ONLY GET

WORSE AS THIS STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TO RESULT IN TORRENTIAL

DOWNPOURS OVER THE AREA.



NOT MUCH IMPROVEMENT IS EXPECTED OVER THE AREAS UNTIL EITHER LATE

THIS MORNING OR EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.  SOME OF THE FLASH

FLOOD WARNINGS MAY HAVE TO BE REISSUED.

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