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TROPICAL DEPRESSION LOCAL STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
100 AM CDT TUE JUL 1 2003

...BILL NOW A DEPRESSION AND MOVING INLAND...

...STORM SURGE TIDES 3 TO 4 FEET ABOVE NORMAL ALONG THE COAST
   INCLUDING...NORTHSHORE LAKE PONTCHTRAIN...

...WATCHES AND WARNINGS...

...ALL TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS ARE DISCONTINUED....

...A COASTAL FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
   AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI FROM LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN TO PASCAGOULA...

...AREAS AFFECTED...
THIS LOCAL STATEMENT IS PRIMARILY FOR THE ST TAMMANY PARISH
IN LOUISIANA.

AND THE MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES OF HANCOCK...HARRISON..AND JACKSON.

...STORM INFORMATION...
AT 100 AM CDT...TROPICAL STORM BILL WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 31.3
NORTH AND LONGITUDE 89.4 WEST OR VERY NEAR HATTIESBURG MISSISSIPPI.
BILL WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST NEAR 10 MPH.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 35 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS  MAINLY
OVER THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS. A CONTINUED WEAKENING IS
FORECAST AS THE DEPRESSION MOVES INLAND.

...STORM SURGE INFORMATION...
TIDES ARE CURRENTLY 3 TO 4 FEET ABOVE NORMAL ALONG THE EAST SHORE OF
LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN FROM MANDEVILLE TO SLIDELL IN ST TAMMANY PARISH.
ST TAMMANY PARISH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A FEW HOMES WERE
FLOODED IN THE PALM LAKE SUBDIVISION IN SLIDELL AND THE LAKE VIEW
SUBDIVISION IN MANDEVILLE.

ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI COAST TIDES REMAIN 5 FEET ABOVE NORMAL NEAR
WAVELAND WHERE HANCOCK EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THAT THERE WAS 2
FEET OF WATER ON BEACH ROAD.

AS THE CIRCULATION AROUND TROPICAL DEPRESSION BILL WEAKENS...TIDES
WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY.