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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

305 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001



...URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY UNTIL 330 AM...



NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE

TO MOVE IN FROM THE GULF INTO THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF JEFFERSON

COUNTY THROUGH 330 AM. THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS REGIONAL AIRPORT AS OF 300

AM...HAS REPORTED OVER 2 AND 1/4 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN A 2 HOUR

PERIOD. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR WILL CONTINUE

WITH THIS ACTIVITY THROUGH 330 AM.



FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED...

ESPECIALLY IN THE MID COUNTY REGION BETWEEN PORT ARTHUR AND

BEAUMONT...AS WELL AS...ALONG HIGHWAY 73 BETWEEN PORT ARTHUR AND

WINNIE AND HIGHWAY 124 IN FANNET AND HAMSHIRE.



REPORTS FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE INDICATE THE PARKING

LOTS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL IN HAMSHIRE AND THE MIDDLE SCHOOL IN FANNETT

ARE UNDER WATER. ALSO...ALONG HIGHWAY 73 BETWEEN PORT ARTHUR AND

WINNIE PONDING OF WATER IS OCCURRING IN MANY LOCATIONS WITH THE WORST

NEAR BIG HILL ROAD.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE WHERE WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS

THE ROAD.



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