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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY

604 PM MDT SAT MAY 3 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RIVERTON HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL BIG HORN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING



* UNTIL 900 PM MDT



* AT 604 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING IN AN AREA

  BETWEEN EMBLEM AND GREYBULL. RADAR IS ESTIMATING RAINFALL RATES  

  OVER A HALF INCH AN HOUR WITH THE STORMS CONTINUING TO STRENGTHEN.

  EXCESSIVE RAINFALL RATES ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST

  7 PM AS STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SAME AREAS. THE AREAS

  OF MOST CONCERN ARE ALONG THE GREYBULL RIVER AND BIGHORN RIVER

  FROM NORTH OF GREYBULL TO MANDERSON. 



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.

IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF

STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND

FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE

SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.



REPORT FLASH FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN

RIVERTON AT 1-800-211-1448.



LAT...LON 4439 10851 4421 10789 4482 10785 4486 10815



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