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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA

641 PM EDT SAT MAY 19 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...

  NORTH CENTRAL MARTINSVILLE CITY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...



* UNTIL 845 PM EDT.



* AT 637 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY 

RAIN AND THE HENRY COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED FLASH FLOODING 

NEAR BASSETT AND COLLINSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.



LOCATIONS THREATENED BY FLASH FLOODING THROUGH 845 PM EDT INCLUDE

  BASSETT...

  COLLINSVILLE...

  FIGSBORO...

  MARTINSVILLE...



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE 

WARNED AREA. 



<<CALL TO ACTION>>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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