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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

725 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  HEMPSTEAD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

  NEVADA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS



* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT



* AT 725 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED HEAVY RAIN

  FROM A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR BLUFF CITY IN NEVADA 

  COUNTY...SOUTHWEST THROUGH ROSSTON...AND THROUGH HOPE...SHOVER     

  SPRINGS...PATMOS...AND EVENING SHADE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 

  DOPPLAR RADAR INDCIATED THAT ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR  

  IS FALLING FROM THESE STORMS...OVER AN AREA WHICH HAS RECEIVED     

  ALREADY UP TO THREE INCHES THIS EVENING...AND ANOTHER TWO TO THREE 

  INCHES A FEW EVENINGS AGO. MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN     

  HOPE AND PATMOS IN HEMPSTEAD COUNTY...AND ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS   

  LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY

ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODING.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.



REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD

WARNING FOR...

  HEMPSTEAD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

  NEVADA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

UNTIL 1115 PM CDT.



LAT...LON 3372 9389 3349 9369 3348 9359 3347 9324

      3374 9312 3386 9326 3396 9358



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