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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL

410 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM 

FLOOD ADVISORY FOR PEOPLE IN COOSA AND ELMORE COUNTIES THROUGH 515 

PM.



AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... 

CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS COOSA AND ELMORE COUNTIES.  RADAR RAINFALL 

ESTIMATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR...ARE COMMON ACROSS NORTH 

CENTRAL ELMORE COUNTY AND MUCH OF COOSA COUNTY...FROM HOLTVILLE...TO 

WALLSBORO...ECLECTIC...AND NORTHWARD TO ROCKFORD AND ALEXANDER 

CITY.HAVE  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE...POSSIBLY TWO INCHES...WILL 

CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STANDING WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS...FLOODING OF 

LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREAS.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS.



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.

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