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BULLETIN-IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED


FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT


NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PAGO PAGO AS


1230 PM LST MON MAY 19 2003





...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR  AMERICAN SAMOA IS NOW CANCELLED...





THE HEAVY SHOWERS HAVE DIMINISHED AS THE STORM CONTINUES TO MOVE


EASTWARD.





HOWEVER, A FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN FORCE FOR TUTUILA AND MANUA


AS SCATTERED SHOWERS HEAVY AT TIMES WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE


TERRITORY THROUGH TONIGHT.





THE TAFUNA WEATHER STATION HAS MEASURED 10.06 INCHES OF RAINFALL


SINCE 5:40 AM MONDAY.   OUR COOPERTIVE OBSERVER MRS. MARILYN AH


CHING OF  NUUULI UTA RECORDED MORE THAN 15 INCHES OF RAINFALL AT HER


RESIDENCE AT THE SAME TIME PERIOD. 





THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS REPORTED NUMEROUS INCIDENTS OF WASHED


OUT HOMES AND VEHICLES DUE TO FLOODED AND RAPIDLY RISING WATERS.  


NUMEROUS LANDSLIDES ACROSS TUTUILA HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED.  LAND


SLIDE WITH A LARGE TREE FELL ON THE LANGKILDE BUSINESS CENTER IN


FAGATOGO.





FLOODING OF HOMES IN PAGO PAG0 AND NUUULI UTA HAVE FORCED SEVERAL


RESIDENTS TO BE EVACUATED.  





FLOODING HAS CAUSED THE ROADS TO FAGAALU HOSPITAL IN ACCESSIBLE AND


THE ROAD TO FAGASA TO BE CLOSED.  MOST OF THE MAIN ROAD THROUGH


PAGO PAGO IS UNDER WATER.  THE TAFUNA-FAGAIMA ROAD IS FLOODED.  THE


LOWER FALENIU AND MALAEIMI AREA IS FLOODED SO AS  NUUULI UTA,


TAFUNA, AND THE ILIILI GOLF COURSE AREA.





MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO STAY HOME AS MOST OF THE ROADS ARE UNDER


WATER.





ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY SHOWERS HAS DIMINISHED, THE HEAVY RUNOFFS,


FLOODED AREAS AND SATURATED GROUNDS WILL CONTINUE TO POSE


PROBLEMS ACROSS THE TERRITORY AS SHOWERS HEAVY AT TIMES WILL


PERSIST THROUGH TONIGHT.





THE LATEST SATELLITE PICTURES HAS SHOWED THE STORM TO BE MOVING


SLOWLY EASTWARD.  TUTUILA HAS ALREADY SEEN IMPROVEMENT FROM THE


WEST WITH THE HEAVY SHOWERS HAS NOW BECOME WIDELY SCATTERED.





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