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WGUS74 KLIX 132058

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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

357 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001



...HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF GREATER

NEW ORLEANS AREA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...



AT 345 PM AN AREAS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY

RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM EASTERN NEW ORLEANS TO NEAR RACELAND IN

CENTRAL LAFOURCHE PARISH. THE LINE WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST AROUND

10 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT...EAST NEW

ORLEANS...ST BERNARD...UPPER PLAQUEMINES...WEST BANK AREAS OF

JEFFERSON PARISH...AND LAFOURCHE AND TERREBONNE PARISHES

THROUGH 600 PM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WITH ISOLATED

HIGHER AMOUNTS CAN BE EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF AFTERNOON IN

THESE AREAS.





THE HEAVY RAINFALL MAY PRODUCE FLOODING OF SOME STREETS AND LOW

LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR AUTOMOBILE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS

OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.

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