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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY

544 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL

STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR

PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

     UNION...WEBSTER AND HOPKINS



IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

     CRITTENDEN...CALDWELL AND LYON



AT 539 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 

FROM EDDYVILLE KENTUCKY...NORTHEAST TO DIXON. RAINFALL RATES AROUND ONE 

INCH PER HOUR WERE COMMON WITH THIS LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS.



THE AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. RAINFALL TOTALS FROM ONE 

TO TWO INCHES IN JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS ARE EXPECTED...OR HAVE ALREADY 

OCCURRED...IN THE ADVISORY AREA. THE RAIN WILL TAPER OFF BY 7 PM ACROSS 

THE AREA. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL BEGIN BY 630 PM IN PRINCETON AND 

MADISONVILLE.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES...AS WELL AS 

FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



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