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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

830 AM CDT SUN SEP 2 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR JEFFERSON AND ORANGE

COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...AND CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST

LOUISIANA...



DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS

FROM WINNIE TEXAS EXTENDING ACROSS BEAUMONT AND PORT ARTHUR TEXAS...

INTO CALCASIEU PARISH FROM VINTON...WESTLAKE...AND MOSS BLUFF. THESE

SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH OVER THE

SAME AREAS...PRODUCING ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN THE TWO TO

THREE INCH RANGE.



WITH THE RECENT RAINFALL GROUNDS ARE SATURATED AND MANY BAYOUS AND

DITCHES ALONG THE ROADWAYS ARE NEAR CAPACITY. THIS ADDITIONAL

RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE

AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE WHERE WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH

COVERS THE ROAD.

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