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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY

436 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001



AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING 

COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM CDT.



HAMILTON...EDWARDS...WABASH...WHITE...GALLATIN...SALINE 

...GIBSON...PIKE...POSEY COUNTY...SPENCER COUNTY...VANDERBURGH AND

WARRICK COUNTY.



A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE RACING EASTWARD ACROSS THE 

ADVISORY AREA. MUCH OF THE HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED EAST THE ILLINOIS 

COUNTIES IN THE ADVISORY. IN THIS AREA PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN WILL 

CONTINUE FOR 15 TO 30 MINUTES...BUT STANDING WATER IS STILL POSSIBLE 

IN THIS AREA. FOR THE INDIANA COUNTIES IN THE ADVISORY...IF RAIN HAS 

NOT YET REACHED YOUR AREA...IT WILL BY 500 PM CDT. AREAS CURRENTLY 

RECEIVING HEAVY RAIN CAN EXPECT THE RAIN TO TAPER BY 500 PM CDT.



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.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



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