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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA

303 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SUMMERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA...

  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA...



* UNTIL 500 PM EDT.



* AT 300 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A

  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF

  HINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.



LOCATIONS THREATENED BY HEAVY RAIN THROUGH 500 PM EDT INCLUDE

  HINTON...

  UNION...

  PIPESTEM CREEK...

  LICK CREEK...

  INDIAN CREEK...



THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED 

AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING 

IN THE ABOVE LOCATIONS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS.



<<CALL TO ACTION>>SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...

POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS.



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