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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL

525 PM CDT MON AUG 13 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM 

FLOOD ADVISORY...FOR PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN JEFFERSON AND NORTHERN 

SHELBY COUNTIES.



SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IN AN 

AREA BETWEEN VESTAVIA HILLS AND CHELSEA...GENERALLY ALONG HIGHWAY 

280.  THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS EXPANDING EASTWARD...TOWARDS VINCENT.

DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ACROSS 

THE AREA SINCE 430 PM THIS AFTERNOON.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS 

OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 7 PM. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...AS 

WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



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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