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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT

631 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  RUTLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT



* UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT.



* AT 621 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY

  HEAVY RAINFALL FALLING ALONG THE WESTERN SLOPES OF THE GREEN 

  MOUNTAINS FROM PITTSFIELD SOUTH INTO MASSACHUSETTS. THE RAIN WAS

  MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT 20 MPH.



  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF LOCALIZED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 

  ALREADY FALLEN. RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH 8 PM WITH 

  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE.



  FLOODING OF STREETS...BASEMENTS...SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS ARE

  LIKELY TONIGHT.





* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BELMONT...CASTLETON...

  CHITTENDEN...DANBY FOUR CORNERS... HUBBARDTON...KILLINGTON... 

  MENDON...MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS...MT. HOLLY...MT. TABOR...NORTH 

  CLARENDON...PAWLET... PITTSFIELD...PROCTOR...SHREWSBURY... 

  WALLINGFORD...WEST BRIDGEWATER AND RUTLAND.



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

ROADWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER 

SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT

ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS.



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

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



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