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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...UPDATED

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY

855 PM EDT THU SEP 4 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR SUSQUEHANNA

COUNTY...



AT 840 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO

INDICATE AN AREA OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER THE FOLLOWING

LOCATIONS...ALFORD...BURNWOOD...ELKDALE...GIBSON...HARFORD...HOP

BOTTOM...LENOXVILLE...ROYAL...UNIONDALE AND WEST LENOX.



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT TORRENTIAL 

RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS 

OF THE COUNTY UNTIL BETWEEN 9 AND 915 PM.  RADAR ESTIMATES HAVE 

SHOWN THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN 

SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY SINCE ABOUT 745 PM.



FLOODING IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS ON THE 

FOLLOWING SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS...NEAR HOP BOTTOM ON MARTINS 

CREEK...HORTON CREEK...DRY CREEK...AND ON THE CREEK DRAINING LORD 

POND.  NEAR DIMOCK ON BURDICK CREEK...WHITE CREEK...AND MESHOPPEN 

CREEK.  NEAR WEST AUBURN ON TUSCARORA CREEK. NEAR WEST LENOX ON 

PARTNERS CREEK AND NINE PARTNERS CREEK.  NEAR LENOXVILLE ON 

TUNKHANNOCK CREEK...BEAR SWAMP CREEK...AND THE CREEKS DRAINING MUD 

POND AND ROUND POND.



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.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.



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