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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS

1200 AM CDT THU AUG 23 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL

STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT THURSDAY

MORNING...FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...

     SHAWNEE AND DOUGLAS.



IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...

     JEFFERSON.



SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...

     GRANTVILLE...CLINTON LAKE...PERRY LAKE...VALLEY FALLS...

     NORTONVILLE...WINCHESTER...OZAWKIE...MCLOUTH...MERIDEN...

     PERRY...WILLIAMSTOWN...LECOMPTON...EUDORA...CLINTON...  

     RICHLAND...BALDWIN CITY...OSKALOOSA...TOPEKA AND LAWRENCE.



AT 1158 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS 

ALL OF SHAWNEE...DOUGLAS AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES.  OVER TWO AND A 

HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN BETWEEN 11 PM AND MIDNIGHT AT 

TOPEKAS BILLARD AIRPORT.



SEVERAL AREA ROADS ARE SURE TO FLOOD.  DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED 

ROADWAYS AS THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS.  BE ESPECIALLY 

CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF 

FLOODING. 



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE

LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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