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WGUS52 KRAH 100347

FFWRAH

NCC101-100945-



BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC

1142 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  WESTERN JOHNSTON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 600 AM EDT



* AT 1142 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA.



* THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUOUSLY REDEVELOPED UPSTREAM OVER SOUTHERN 

WAKE COUNTY CAUSING FLOODING AND RAPIDLY RISING WATER ON MANY OF THE 

CREEKS RUNNING INTO JOHNSTON COUNTY FROM WAKE COUNTY.  THE CREEKS 

MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLASH FLOODING BEFORE DAYBREAK ARE SWIFT 

CREEK... MIDDLE CREEK...AND BLACK CREEK... ALL WEST OF SMITHFIELD.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  MANY FLASH FLOOD FATALITIES 

OCCUR BY MOTORISTS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS AT NIGHT.



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