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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA

637 PM CDT MON OCT 22 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR PEOPLE

IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTHEAST IOWA

     DUBUQUE AND SOUTHERN DELAWARE



IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA

     BENTON AND NORTHWESTERN LINN



SOME LOCATIONS IN THIS ADVISORY INCLUDE BELLE PLAINE...BLAIRSTOWN... 

CENTER POINT...COGGON...DELHI...DYERSVILLE...EARLVILLE...EPWORTH... 

FARLEY...GARRISON...HOLY CROSS...HOPKINTON...KEYSTONE...NEW 

VIENNA...NEWHALL...PALO...RYAN... SHELLSBURG...URBANA...VAN HORNE... 

VINTON...WALKER AND WORTHINGTON.



AT 631 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES HEAVY

RAIN WAS FALLING OVER THE ADVISORY AREA...WITH DOPPLER RADAR 

ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 4 PM.



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER

PORTIONS OF THE ADVISORY AREA...LEADING TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF MINOR

FLOODING.



STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN VINTON BY SPOTTERS AND LAW 

ENFORCEMENT.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

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