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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA

1148 PM EDT THU MAY 20 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CLEARFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA



* UNTIL 545 AM EDT.



* AT 1140 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A

  CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER WEST

  CENTRAL CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE 

WARNED AREA...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 1.5 INCHES PER HOUR OR GREATER 

EXPECTED. MINOR STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED BY LOCAL LAW 

ENFORCEMENT IN DUBOIS. 



ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL TRACK ALONG 

THE SAME PATH. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE 

FLASH FLOODING IN PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL CLEARFIELD COUNTY THROUGH 

THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME TOWNS INCLUDED IN THE FLASH FLOOD 

WARNING AREA INCLUDE DUBOIS...TREASURE LAKE...ROCKTON AND FALLS 

CREEK. 



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.





LAT...LON 4114 7856 4094 7856 4106 7881 4116 7881

          4122 7873



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