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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN

634 PM EDT SUN SEP 2 2001



...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR GRAINGER...HAMBLEN AND JEFFERSON

COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM EDT...



AT 634 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A

THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN ALPHA...OR 6 MILES EAST OF

JEFFERSON CITY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.



LOCATIONS THAT MAY HAVE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING INCLUDE...

WHITE PINE...ALPHA...PANTHER CREEK STATE PARK...RUTLEDGE...

MORRISTOWN...JEFFERSON CITY



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT IN 

EXCESS OF ONE INCH OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THE PAST HOUR ACROSS

SECTIONS OF JEFFERSON...GRAINGER AND SOUTHWEST HAMBLEN COUNTIES.

AN ADDITIONAL ONE INCH OF RAIN ARE EXPECTED OVER ONE HOUR.  



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...THIS

STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLANDS...AND OTHER

LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS

BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.



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