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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

858 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  BOSSIER PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

  CADDO PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA



* UNTIL 100 AM CST



* AT 858 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR

  INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM OIL CITY

  AND VIVIAN...SOUTH TO NEAR BETHANY LOUISIANA. THIS LINE OF 

  THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST NEAR 20 MPH...WHILE INDIVIDUAL

  THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH.

  THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING EXCESSIVE

  RAINFALL OF NEAR TWO INCHES PER HOUR...EARLIER ACROSS PORTIONS OF 

  EASTERN TEXAS. AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN WILL

  BE POSSIBLE...ACROSS PORTIONS OF CADDO AND BOSSIER TONIGHT.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.



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

ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.



REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD

WARNING FOR...

  BOSSIER PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

  CADDO PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

UNTIL 100 AM CST.

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