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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN

609 PM CDT MON AUG 27 2001



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

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING

FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



  DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...

  TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...



AT 600 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY 

HEAVY RAIN IN EASTERN DESOTO AND EASTERN TATE COUNTIES MOVING SLOWLY 

WESTWARD.



IN ADDITION...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AT THE 

MAGNOLIA SUBDIVISION IN OLIVE BRANCH MISSISSIPPI...



THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE CAUSING HEAVY RAIN IN 

DESOTO AND TATE COUNTIES THROUGH ABOUT 8 PM THIS EVENING AS THEY 

MOVE SLOWLY WESTWARD.



.EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



.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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