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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL

745 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE FOR CENTRAL ORANGE

COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM EDT...



AT 740 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY 

HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS ORLANDO...EDGEWOOD...CONWAY...PINE 

CASTLE AND BELLE ISLE FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. 



ONE HOUR DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOWED TWO AND A HALF TO 

THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS THESE AREAS. THE STORMS ARE 

EXPECTED TO DRIFT ONLY SLOWLY EAST AND MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER INCH OF 

RAIN THROUGH 830 PM.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF...URBAN

AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE

AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



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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