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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA

552 PM EDT SAT MAY 19 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  HALIFAX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...



* UNTIL 745 PM EDT.



* AT 550 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

  SEVERAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL    

  AND MERGING OVER CENTRAL HALIFAX COUNTY.



LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 745 PM EDT INCLUDE        

  HALIFAX...

  SOUTH BOSTON...



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE

WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH 

FLOODING IN HALIFAX AND ESPECIALLY SOUTH BOSTON.



<<CALL TO ACTION>>EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH

FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND 

UNDERPASSES.  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER 

COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE 

ABANDONED.



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