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WGUS54 KSHV 260751

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TXC073-261045-



BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

148 AM CST WED MAR 26 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS



* UNTIL 445 AM CST



* AT 148 AM CST...THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR   

INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER RUSK OR ALONG HWY 84 BETWEEN RUSK

AND ALTO TEXAS. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED NEARLY FOUR INCHES

OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE PORTION OF CHEROKEE COUNTY...

WITH ANOTHER TWO TO THREE INCHES POSSIBLE. 



INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORM CELLS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 25 

MPH...WHILE THE MOVEMENT OF THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEARLY

STATIONARY.



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...

  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

UNTIL 445 AM CST.



LAT...LON 3181 9532 3162 9521 3149 9505 3155 9497

          3191 9504



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