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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA

802 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  BLAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA



* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT.



* AT 759 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  FLOODING ALREADY OCCURRING.



HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING EAST OUT OF BLAIR COUNTY. ALTHOUGH 

SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDNIGHT...LITTLE MORE THAN 

A TENTH OF AN INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAIN IS EXPECTED.



HOWEVER...RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINFALL CONTINUES TO CAUSE 

SIGNIFICANT FLOODING ACROSS BLAIR COUNTY. HARDEST HIT IS THE 

COMMUNITY OF LAKEMONT...WHERE WIDESPREAD FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY 

COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS. NUMEROUS FIRE DEPARTMENTS ARE 

RESPONDING TO THE TOWN OF LAKEMONT.



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.



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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