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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

912 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001



...URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY FOR JEFFERSON AND ORANGE COUNTIES IN

SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT...



A 25 MILE WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS

JEFFERSON AND ORANGE COUNTIES FROM SOUTH OF WINNIE TO NORTH OF ORANGE

AT 9 PM IS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS IN THE BEAUMONT...PORT ARTHUR AREAS.

STORMS IN THE BAND WILL MOVE NORTHEAST 25 MPH. THE BAND OF STORMS

WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS JEFFERSON AND ORANGE COUNTIES

THROUGH MIDNIGHT. STRONGER STORMS WITHIN THE BAND WILL PRODUCE RAINS

UP TO AROUND 2 INCHES PER HOUR.



WITH THE RECENT RAINFALL GROUNDS ARE SATURATED AND MANY BAYOUS AND

DITCHES ALONG ROADWAYS ARE NEAR CAPACITY. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL

WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.



MANY STREETS AND ROADWAYS MAY BECOME INUNDATED WITH THE HEAVY

RAINFALL...USE CAUTION. THE HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DEEP

WATER THAT WILL STALL VEHICLES.



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

THE ROAD.



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