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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL

1155 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CHAMPAIGN AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES

UNTIL 200 AM CDT...



AT 1155 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

THE HEAVY RAINS WERE TAPERING OFF ACROSS THE AREA. ALTHOUGH...

RADAR HAS INDICATED 6 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN

PORTIONS OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY

THIS EVENING.  



CHAMPAIGN AND DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICES STILL REPORTED SOME 

LINGERING FLOODING IN THESE AREAS. SOME RURAL ROADS STILL REPORTED

CLOSED BETWEEN PETOSUM AND BROADLANDS. A COUPLE ROADS WERE ALSO 

REPORTED AS WASHED OUT. 



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS WHILE TRAVELING ON AREA ROADS OVERNIGHT AND 

WATCH FOR FLOODED ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED AREAS

BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. 



REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL ESDA...OR THE NEAREST LAW

ENFORCEMENT AGENCY...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY

TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.



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