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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR

1148 PM AST THU SEP 16 2004



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM FOR ALL 

OF THE MUNICIPALITIES IN PUERTO RICO...INCLUDING CULEBRA AND 

VIEQUES...AND FOR ST THOMAS...ST JOHN AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS AND 

FOR ST CROIX IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... 



AT 1143 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE 

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE AFFECTING THE FORMER WARNING 

AREA EARLIER THIS EVENING HAD DISSIPATED OR MOVED AWAY FROM THE 

AREA. ALTHOUGH A PASSING SHOWER OR SOME LIGHT RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE 

ACROSS THESE AREAS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS....NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY 

RAINFALL OR NEW FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED. THEREFORE...THE FLASH 

FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.



HOWEVER...RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR... 

AND STAY AWAY FROM...ANY LEFTOVER FLOODED ROADS OR OTHER LOW LYING 

AREAS UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. IN ADDITION...ALTHOUGH THE FLASH 

FLOOD WARNING WAS REMOVED...SEVERAL RIVERS...STREAMS AND GUTS ACROSS 

PUERTO RICO...VIEQUES AND CULEBRA AND THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS REMAIN 

FLOODED OR NEAR BANKFULL AND ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

MAY DEVELOP OVER OR MOVE ACROSS THE LOCAL ISLANDS FRIDAY. THUS...A 

FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF PUERTO RICO...VIEQUES 

AND CULEBRA...AND ALL OF THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. ALSO...A FLOOD 

WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A FEW MUNICIPALITIES AND RIVERS ACROSS 

PUERTO RICO.  



PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION 

ON THIS FLOOD SITUATION.



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