National Weather service flash flood watch includes Logan and surrounding counties

[November 15, 2009]  FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WATCH FOR A PORTION OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS

225 PM CST SUN NOV 15 2009

...INCLUDING

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...CASS...FULTON...

LOGAN...MASON...MENARD...

MORGAN...SANGAMON...

SCHUYLER AND SCOTT.

FROM MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT

THROUGH TUESDAY

AFTERNOON.

* AN UPPER LEVEL

DISTURBANCE WILL BRING

HEAVY RAIN TO PORTIONS

OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT 2 TO 4

INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY

SOUTHWEST OF A CANTON TO

SPRINGFIELD LINE...THROUGH

LATE TUESDAY.  THIS AMOUNT

OF RAIN WILL LIKELY CAUSE

AREA RIVERS TO BEGIN RISING.

PORTIONS OF THE SPOON ...SANGAMON...AND MACKINAW RIVERS MAY APPROACH FLOOD

STAGE LATER THIS WEEK.

PORTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS

RIVER ARE STILL IN FLOOD

FROM THE HEAVY RAIN A

COUPLE WEEKS AGO...AND THIS

UPCOMING RAIN WILL LIKELY

CAUSE RENEWED RISES.

PRECAUTIONARY

PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FLOOD WATCH MEANS

THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR

FLOODING BASED ON

CURRENT FORECASTS.

YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER

FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR

POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS.

THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE

TO FLOODING SHOULD BE

PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP.

[The National Weather Service]