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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA

100 AM CDT WED MAY 12 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA



* UNTIL 400 AM CDT



* AT 100 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

OVER SIX INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS FROM 

VINTON TO SULPHUR...WITH FOUR TO SIX INCHES OVER MOST OF WESTERN AND 

NORTHERN CALCASIEU PARISH. CLUSTERS OF STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS WILL 

LIKELY ADD ANOTHER TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN THE WARNED AREA.



* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 

WESTLAKE...VINTON...SULPHUR...STARKS AND MOSS BLUFF.



HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS RAPIDLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE

YOUR VEHICLE WHERE WATERS OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE ROAD.



REMEMBER...MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS.



CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT FLOODING TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.



LAT...LON 3039 9369 3009 9367 3009 9332 3038 9316



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