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FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL

920 AM EDT SAT SEP 29 2001



...FLOOD WATCH CANCELED FOR GLADES, HENDRY WEST PALM BEACH 

COUNTIES...

...FLOOD WATCH REMAINDER OF SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY...



A FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL FLORIDA WITH A BROAD LOW 

PRESSURE AREA OVER THE SOUTHEAST GULF OF MEXICO HAS SLOWLY SHIFTED 

SOUTHEAST DURING THE NIGHT. AS OF 900 AM THIS MORNING, THE FRONTAL 

BOUNDARY EXTENDED SOUTHWEST FROM WEST PALM BEACH TO NAPLES AND 

SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON

WITH RAINFALL ENDING.  



NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY A CONTINUOUS BUT LIGHT RAIN WILL FALL THIS 

MORNING WHILE SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY, RAINFALL WILL BE HEAVIER BUT 

WILL SHIFT INTO THE ATLANTIC BEFORE NOON. BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON, 

RAINFALL SHOULD END ACROSS ALL OF SOUTH FLORIDA. 



BUT THE FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR COLLIER, EAST PALM 

BEACH, BROWARD AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AS 

STANDING WATER WILL BE SLOW TO DRAIN FROM LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE 

AREAS. TRAVELERS SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT URBAN FLOOD ADVISORIES WILL 

BE IN EFFECT THIS MORNING IN THESE COUNTIES. 



ALL INTERESTS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR 

COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND 

POSSIBLE WARNINGS.





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