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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN

1123 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2001



...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR CARTER...SULLIVAN AND JOHNSON

COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM EDT...



AT 1123 PM EDT...A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED URBAN AND SMALL STREAM 

FLOODING IN THE TWO CITIES OF BRISTOL ALONG STATE STREET. THE 

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THIS MINOR FLOODING EXTENDED ALONG THE 

VIRGINIA...TENNESSEE STATE LINE FROM NEAR DAMASCUS TO KINGSPORT. THE 

LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.



RAINS FROM EARLIER THURSDAY EVENING HAVE ALREADY MADE THE GROUND 

VERY WET.  THESE NEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE AS MUCH AS ONE INCH OF 

RAIN PER HOUR.



ALL LOCATIONS IN SULLIVAN...JOHNSON...AND CARTER WILL BE SUBJECT TO 

MINOR FLOODING FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ESPECIALLY FLOOD PRONE 

AREAS ARE IN LOW SPOTS...IN URBANIZED AREAS...AND ALONG CREEKS.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO

HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.



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