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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR

1030 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  GRANT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

  SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS



* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT



* AT 1025 AM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED RAIN CONTINUING OVER 

  MUCH OF SALINE AND GRANT COUNTIES...WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS AS 

  WELL. WHILE RAINFALL RATES HAD TAPERED OFF...2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN 

  AND LOCALLY MORE HAD OCCURRED IN PORTIONS OF THE WARNING AREA.     

  SOME STREETS WERE UNDER WATER FROM BENTON EASTWARD TO SHANNON      

  HILLS. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL AGGRAVATE ANY HIGH WATER       

  PROBLEMS.



&&



DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH

MAY BE TO GREAT FOR SAFE PASSAGE. IT ONLY TAKES ABOUT TWO FEET OF

MOVING WATER TO CARRY A VEHICLE DOWNSTREAM.



LAT...LON 3479 9267 3476 9256 3469 9256 3467 9245

          3461 9245 3461 9235 3455 9235 3457 9224

          3417 9223 3417 9265 3440 9265 3451 9271

          3477 9292



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