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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT

745 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  ESSEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK

  CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK



* UNTIL 200 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING.



* AT 740 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

  SEVERAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS 

  NORTHERN ESSEX COUNTY AND ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL CLINTON COUNTY. 

  DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED LOCALIZED RAINFALL TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 

  2 TO 3 INCHES IN THIS AREA.

  

  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THE WARNING AREA THROUGH

  9 PM WITH A LARGER...MORE WIDESPREAD AREA OF RAINFALL MOVING INTO

  THE WARNING AREA THROUGH 11 PM.



  ADDITIONAL WIDESPREAD RAINFALL OF AN INCH IS LIKELY WITH LOCALIZED

  AMOUNTS POSSIBLY REACHING 3 INCHES.  POOR DRAINAGE...LOW LYING

  AREAS AS WELL AS BASEMENT...STREAM AND RIVER FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.

  



* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BEEKMANTOWN...CHAZY...

  CLINTONVILLE...DANNEMORA...ELIZABETHTOWN...ELLENBURG DEPOT... 

  HARKNESS...JAY...KEENE...KEESEVILLE...MORRISONVILLE...NORTH 

  HUDSON...UNDERWOOD...UPPER JAY AND PLATTSBURGH.



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

ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. TURN 

AROUND...DONT DROWN BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS 

HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.



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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