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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

1149 AM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001



...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR RAPIDES PARISH UNTIL

200 PM...



AT 1145 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE

OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS RAPIDES PARISH FROM

GLENMORA THROUGH THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA. MOST OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL

WILL SLIDE ALONG THIS LINE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES NEAR 2 INCHES

AN HOUR ACROSS THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA.



THIS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW-LYING AREAS ACROSS

RAPIDES PARISH...INCLUDING THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE WHERE WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE

ROAD.

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