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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA

415 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA



* UNTIL 715 PM EDT.



* AT 411 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN

  AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CHAMBERSBURG TO SHIPPENSBURG...MOVING

  VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST. THE STORM WAS PRODUCING VERY

  HEAVY RAINFALL. A SPOTTER IN CHAMBERSBURG REPORTED ONE HALF INCH

  OF RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IN THE LAST 20 MINUTES...AND MORE RAIN WILL

  BE ON THE WAY FOR THAT AREA.  RADAR ESTIMATES MORE THAN TWO INCHES

  HAS FALLEN NORTH OF FAYETTEVILLE IN THE LAST HOUR. 



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE

WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH 

FLOODING IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...IN TOWNS LIKE 

FAYETTEVILLE...CHAMBERSBURG....SHIPPENSBURG AND MONT ALTO.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS

IMMINENT. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER IN A VEHICLE OR ON FOOT



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