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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR

956 PM AST WED SEP 15 2004



...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL CONTINUES TO WORSEN FLASH FLOODING ACROSS 

   CULEBRA AND VIEQUES...



THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING ISSUED EARLIER BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER

SERVICE IN SAN JUAN REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING

MUNICIPALITIES



IN PUERTO RICO

     CULEBRA AND VIEQUES



AT 946 PM AST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT TORRENTIAL RAINFALL 

CONTINUED TO LINE UP SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST FROM FROM SOUTH OF 

VIEQUES TO NORTH OF CULEBRA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN 

CONTINUOUSLY MOVING ACROSS THESE ISLANDS AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO 

UNTIL TROPICAL STORM JEANNE...LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST PUERTO RICO 

MOVES AWAY FROM THE AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT 

CULEBRA HAS BEEN RECEIVING 2 TO 4 INCHES PER HOUR DURING THE PAST 

HOUR...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE WEST SECTION OF THE ISLAND. AN 

ADDITIONAL 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.



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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