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WGUS51 KCTP 212003

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PAC013-212300-



BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA

400 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  BLAIR COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA



* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.



* AT 400 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM 

  WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING ACROSS BLAIR COUNTY NEAR ALTOONA.

  THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE 

WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO TWO AND ONE HALF 

INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM NEAR ALTOONA. RUNOFF 

FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN BLAIR 

COUNTY. FLOODED ROADS HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN DOWNTOWN ALTOONA.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES.



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