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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL

640 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2001



AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES IN EFFECTIVE 

UNTIL 745 PM THIS EVENING FOR COVINGTON COUNTY.



AT 640 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF 

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN COVINGTON COUNTY WITH 

LIGHTER RAIN OVER THE NORTH.  THESE STORMS WHERE DRIFTING TO THE 

WEST AND PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 

INCHES PER HOUR COMMON.  



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE MINOR 

FLOODING OF LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE ROADWAYS AND UNDERPASSES FOR THE 

NEXT HOUR OR TWO.  A COUPLE OF ROADS REMAIN FLOODED IN ANDALUSIA... 

EAST THREE NOTCH ROAD AND THE BY-PASS ROAD NEAR THE BEST WESTERN 

HOTEL.  



ADDITIONAL FLOODED ROAD PROBLEMS ACROSS THE COUNTY ARE LIKELY AND 

MOTORIST ARE ADVISED TO TRAVEL WITH EXTREME CAUTION THIS EVENING AND 

NOT TO DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.  



THE STORMS WILL GRADUALLY DISSIPATE THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING AND 

END THE THREAT OF FLOODING.   

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