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FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL

530 AM EDT THU SEP 13 2001



...FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES TODAY FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...



A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE COUNTIES OF VOLUSIA...

ORANGE...SEMINOLE...LAKE...BREVARD...OSCEOLA... INDIAN RIVER...

SAINT LUCIE...OKEECHOBEE... AND MARTIN. TROPICAL DEPRESSION EIGHT

WILL REMAIN STATIONARY WHILE STRENGTHENING OVER THE EASTERN GULF OF

MEXICO...INTENSIFYING INTO A TROPICAL STORM LATER TODAY. BRISK AND

PERSISTENT EAST WINDS BLOWING ONSHORE FROM THE ATLANTIC WILL

CONTINUE TO PUSH BANDS OF SHOWERS...AND PERHAPS A THUNDERSTORM OR

TWO...ONSHORE AND ACROSS THE AREA. THE GREATEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS

TODAY ARE EXPECTED IN VOLUSIA AND BREVARD COUNTIES...WHERE THESE

BANDS OF SHOWERS SHOULD BE MOST NUMEROUS AND PERSISTENT...ESPECIALLY

THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WILL INCREASE

OVER ALL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT.



MANY COASTAL LOCATIONS WILL RECEIVE ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN TODAY

...WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS BETWEEN THREE AND FIVE INCHES POSSIBLE.

A FEW INTERIOR LOCATIONS COULD ALSO PICK UP LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL

AMOUNTS AS ADDITIONAL SHOWER BANDS REDEVELOP AND SPREAD INLAND TODAY.

MUCH OF EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY PICKED UP OVER THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL

ON WEDNESDAY.



A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SIGNIFICANT

FLOODING TO OCCUR.  IF FLOODING BECOMES IMMINENT...WARNINGS WILL BE

ISSUED.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR

TELEVISION STATION FOR LATER UPDATES.  RAINFALL SPOTTERS ARE ASKED

TO CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE IF RAINFALL

ACCUMULATIONS EXCEED 2 INCHES.





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