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BULLETIN-IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR

745 AM AST FRI NOV 9 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN JUAN HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND 

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 11 AM AST FRIDAY MORNING 

FOR PEOPLE IN THE ISLAND OF ST. CROIX IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. 



AT 725 AM AST A SPOTTER IN ST CROIX REPORTED HEAVY RAINFALL IN 

EASTERN PART OF ST CROIX WITH SOME LOW LYING FLOODING. ALSO NATIONAL 

WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SHOWERS OCCURRING OVER 

ST CROIX REMAINS ALMOST STATIONARY.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS AND 

STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO 

CAUSE MUDSLIDES IN AREAS OF STEEP TERRAIN.



IF YOU LIVE IN OR ARE PASSING THROUGH THE ADVISORY AREA...YOU SHOULD

AVOID CROSSING FLOODED ROADS AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR

DESTINATION. YOU SHOULD NEVER ATTEMPT TO DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH

AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY...AS CARS CAN EASILY STALL

IN THE WATER AND BE CARRIED AWAY IN ANY CURRENT. REMEMBER...

VISIBILITIES ARE GREATLY REDUCED IN HEAVY RAIN. YOU SHOULD STAY AWAY

FROM RISING RIVERS AND CREEKS.



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