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PRC121-153-132100-



URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR

315 PM AST TUE JUL 13 2004



...FLASH FLOODING RISK CONTINUES IN YAUCO AND SABANA GRANDE...



THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING ISSUED EARLIER BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER

SERVICE IN SAN JUAN REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING

MUNICIPALITIES



IN PUERTO RICO

     SABANA GRANDE AND YAUCO



AT 305 PM AST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES 

ACROSS PARTS OF THIS AREA...ESPECIALLY EASTERN YAUCO. RADAR 

ESTIMATES EXCEED 7 INCHES IN THREE HOURS IN NORTHERN YAUCO. AN ALERT 

RAIN GAUGE IN THE RIO GUANAJIBO BASIN AT SABANA GRANDE INDICATES 

THAT 5.74 INCHES OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN NOON AND 3 PM TODAY. EMERGENCY 

MANAGEMENT HAS NOT YET REPORTED ANY INCIDENTS OF FLOODING.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS

BEEN REPORTED. EVACUATE TO HIGHER GROUND AND TAKE THE NECESSARY

PRECAUTIONS SHOULD FLOOD WATERS AFFECT YOUR AREA.



MOTORISTS AND PEDESTRIANS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS

AND AREAS...AS YOU AND YOUR VEHICLE MIGHT BE SWEPT AWAY BY FLOOD

WATERS. PERSONS IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD SEEK HIGHER GROUND. FOLLOW

INSTRUCTIONS FROM LOCAL CIVIL DEFENSE OR LAW OFFICIALS. THE HEAVY

RAIN COULD ALSO CAUSE MUDSLIDES IN AREAS OF STEEP TERRAIN.



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