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FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

459 AM CDT SAT SEP 1 2001



...A FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CAMERON...CALCASIEU AND JEFF

DAVIS PARISHES IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA UNTIL 630 AM CDT...



AT 500 AM CDT....NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER CAMERON...

JEFF DAVIS AND CALCASIEU PARISH. THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED

TO CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS...WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES ADDITIONAL

RAINFALL POSSIBLE. SINCE MIDNIGHT...RADAR INDICATED UP TO 5 INCHES OF

RAIN HAD ALREADY FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS.



THE CALCASIEU SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED NUMEROUS STREETS

FLOODED IN THE LAKE CHARLES AREA INCLUDING...CARTMAN...LAKE...

OPELOUSAS...SHATTUCK...ENTERPRISE AND BELDEN. SOME MINOR FLOODING WAS

REPORTED IN THE GRAND LAKE AREA OF CAMERON PARISH.



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

ROAD.



MARCOTTE

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