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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

725 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001



...URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY UNTIL 9 AM...



NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE

TO MOVE IN FROM THE GULF INTO JEFFERSON COUNTY THROUGH 900 AM. THE

SOUTHEAST TEXAS REGIONAL AIRPORT HAS REPORTED OVER 3 AND 1/2 INCHES

OF RAINFALL SINCE MIDNIGHT. RAINFALL RATES OF AROUND ONE INCH

PER HOUR WILL CONTINUE WITH THIS ACTIVITY THROUGH 9 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.



ALSO...WITH THESE RAINFALL RATES...PONDING OF WATER NEAR INTERSTATE

UNDERPASSES IN BEAUMONT WILL OCCUR.



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

THE ROAD.



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