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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

1019 AM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS



* ALL OF SOUTHEAST AND EAST-CENTRAL LOUISIANA

  ADJACENT MISSISSIPPI AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES



* UNTIL THIS EVENING



A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER SOUTHERN LOUISIANA AND

SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI HAS BECOME ACTIVE WITH WIDESPREAD SLOW MOVING

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL RATES OF BETWEEN ONE AND TWO

INCHES PER HOUR WILL BE COMMON TODAY...RESULTING IN STREETS AND LOW

LYING AREAS POSSIBLY BECOMING FLOODED AT TIMES THROUGHOUT THE DAY.



AN ADVISORY MEANS THAT MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS

CAN OCCUR DUE TO TORRENTIAL RAINS. THE ADVISORY AREA INCLUDES ALL

OF LOUISIANA GENERALLY EAST OF THE ATCHAFALAYA RIVER...THE SOUTHERN

TIER OF COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI FROM WILKINSON TO WALTHALL...PEARL

RIVER COUNTY AND THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES.



MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

THE SITUATION IS BEING CLOSELY MONITORED AND EVALUATED FOR A

POSSIBLE FLOOD WATCH ISSUANCE FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. STAY

TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS IF THE RAINS PERSIST

AND FLOODING BECOMES MORE SERIOUS.

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