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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL

1146 AM CDT MON SEP 3 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY FOR PEOPLE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY.



SOME STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE PINSON AREA...AND A 

FEW UNDERPASSES IN THE BIRMINGHAM AREA HAVE WATER POOLING UNDER 

THEM.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS MOVING THROUGH JEFFERSON COUNTY...AND 

THIS RAIN COULD CAUSE MORE FLOODING OF CITY STREETS AND UNDERPASSES.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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