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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY

750 PM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORIES CONTINUE UNTIL 9 PM EDT 

FOR POWELL...ESTILL...JACKSON...MCCREARY...WHITLEY...KNOX...CLAY AND 

KNOTT COUNTIES...



AT 745 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE 

HEAVIEST RAINS HAD BEGUN TO WIND DOWN OVER THE ADVISED COUNTIES. 

HOWEVER...RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 3 

INCHES OF RAIN OCCURRED OVER LARGE PARTS OF THOSE COUNTIES. THIS HAS 

LEAD TO RAPID RISES ON THE SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAMS AS WELL AS 

FULL CULVERTS. ALTHOUGH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO BE BELOW 

A QUARTER OF AN INCH...THE RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY MAKE ITS 

WAY DOWNSTREAM LEADING TO POTENTIAL PROBLEMS. ACCORDINGLY THE URBAN 

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORIES REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR A 

LARGE PART OF EAST KENTUCKY SOUTH OF THE MOUNTAIN PARKWAY.  



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE NUISANCE FLOODING OF 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY 

RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



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