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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

810 AM CDT MON JUN 16 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

  MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS



* UNTIL 1115 AM CDT



* AT 810 AM CDT...THE TEXARKANA EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED           

  WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING ACROSS MUCH OF TEXARKANA.  SEVERAL      

  ROADS ARE BEING CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING...AND WATER HAS ENTERED     

  CARS IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS.  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 

  INDICATED A 25 MILE WIDE NORTH AND SOUTH BAND OF SHOWERS AND       

  THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY NORTH BETWEEN 10 AND 15 MPH.  RADAR    

  ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR IS    

  FALLING FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS...OVER AN AREA THAT HAS ALREADY   

  RECEIVED SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST FEW DAYS...WHERE       

  GROUNDS ARE ALREADY SATURATED.  THESE HEAVY RAINS WILL ONLY        

  AGGRAVATE THE ONGOING FLOODING SITUATION.   



CHILDREN SHOULD NOT PLAY IN OR NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES...OR STORM 

DRAINS.



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...

  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

  MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

UNTIL 1115 AM CDT.



LAT...LON 3330 9421 3334 9392 3355 9388 3357 9418



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