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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 SHOWER BANDS SHOULD BE MOST NUMEROUS AND PERSISTENT

...ESPECIALLY THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAIN 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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