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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT

809 AM EDT WED AUG 13 2003





...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR ORLEANS AND ESSEX COUNTIES 

UNTIL 900 AM EDT...



AT 805 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A

CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 10 MILES

SOUTHWEST OF NEWPORT...OR ABOUT OVER IRASBURG...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.



THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NEAR...

  EXIT 26 I91 AT 820 AM.

  ORLEANS AT 830 AM.

  BROWNINGTON AND BARTON AT 835 AM.

  WESTMORE AND EAST CHARLESTON AT 900 AM.



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE

WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH

FLOODING IN BARTON...ISLAND POND...AND EAST HAVEN.



THE STATE POLICE REPORTED FLOODING NEAR THE TOWN CLERKS OFFICE IN 

EAST CHARLESTON AT 700 AM. ALSO...NUMEROUS SPOTS OF WATER CROSSING 

COUNTY ROUTE 242 AND STATE HIGHWAY 105. COOP OBSERVER AT JAY PEAK 

REPORTED 2.00 INCHES OF RAIN THIS MORNING IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.



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.



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LAT...LON 4490 7240 4475 7239 4471 7166 4494 7157

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