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TXZ215-216-020600-



URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

1048 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2001



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

SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 1 AM CDT...



AT 1040 PM RADAR INDICATED A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST OF BEAUMONT TO TO PORT ARTHUR IN

SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH WHILE

PRODUCING RAINS AT A RATE OF A HALF TO ONE INCH 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 FLOODED WITH THE ADDITIONAL

RAINFALL...USE CAUTION. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE WHERE WATER

OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE ROAD.



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