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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL

455 AM CST SAT FEB 22 2003



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR 

LAUDERDALE...COLBERT...FRANKLIN...LAWRENCE...LIMESTONE...MADISON...

MORGAN...JACKSON...DEKALB...MARSHALL AND CULLMAN COUNTIES TIL

10 AM...



AT 445 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL...EAST OF I 65.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN 

CONTINUES ACROSS DEKALB AND MARSHALL COUNTIES.  SINCE MIDNIGHT 

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE COMMON...WITH SOME HIGHER 

AMOUNTS WHICH HAS LED TO FLOODING AND EXCESSIVE RUNOFF. 



AS OF 430 AM...HERE ARE THE LATEST FLOODING REPORTS...



BIG WILLS CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS IN DEKALB COUNTY.

MCFARLAND PARK FLOODED IN FLORENCE.

LYONS ROAD AND PINEY WOODS ROAD FLOODED IN OWENS CROSSROADS.  

FLOOD LANE IN HAZEL GREEN IS FLOODED.

FORDS CHAPEL ROAD HAS 18 INCHES OF WATER OVER IT IN HARVEST.

MOORES MILL AND BRAVES ROADS FLOODED IN MADISON. 

BALTIMORE HILL ROAD UNDER WATER IN MOORES MILL.

HIGHWAY 251 NORTH OF THACH ROAD HAS OVER 1 FOOT OF WATER ON IT.

BROWNS FERRY ROAD FLOODED IN ATHENS.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS 

OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.



LAT...LON 3538 8497 3390 8491 3387 8831 3506 8819

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