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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE

242 AM MDT FRI SEP 14 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM MDT FRIDAY

MORNING(930 AM CDT FRIDAY MORNING) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 

COUNTIES...



IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

     CENTRAL GARDEN COUNTY



IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

     SOUTHERN ARTHUR...SOUTHERN MCPHERSON AND SOUTHWESTERN LOGAN     

     COUNTIES



AT 340 AM CDT(240 AM MDT) WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 8 PM ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA.  

CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES BASED ON RADAR AND SATELLITE ARE THAT 3 TO 4 

INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED IN SOME LOCATIONS.



THIS RAINFALL MAY HAVE WASHED OUT RURAL SAND ROADS.  RADAR 

INDICATES THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED NEAR AND SOUTH OF 

HIGHWAY 92 FROM STAPLETON WEST TO ARTHUR AND ON INTO CENTRAL GARDEN 

COUNTY NORTH OF THE CRESENT LAKE WILDLIFE REFUGE.  ALSO...SOME RURAL 

ROADS EAST AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 61 IN SOUTHERN ARTHUR COUNTY MAY BE 

IMPASSABLE.



USE EXTREME CAUTION TRAVELING UNPAVED ROADS AS RUNOFF MAY HAVE 

CARVED DEEP GULLIES ACROSS THE SOFT ROAD SURFACE.



RADAR INDICATES THE AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT 

NORTHWARD THIS MORNING WITH RAIN TAPERING OFF THROUGH THE EARLY 

MORNING HOURS.



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