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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY

906 PM EDT FRI SEP 17 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM EDT FOR CHEMUNG...

TIOGA AND BROOME COUNTIES...



HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. BROOME COUNTY 

EMERGENCY MAMANGEMENT REPORTS A STREAM OUT OF IT BANKS AND FLOODING 

VALLEY PARK IN KIRKWOOD. ROAD WASHOUTS HAVE BEEN REPRTED IN THE 

TOWN OF BINGHAMTON.



TIOGA COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTS THAT FRANKLIN STREET IS 

CLOSED DUE TO FLODING IN NEWARK VALLEY. 



THERE ARE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODED UNDERPASSES AND OVERFLOWING 

CULVERTS IN THE AREA.



HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING CAUSING ADDITIONAL FLOODING 

PROBLEMS.



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.



SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT

ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS

IMMINENT. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER IN A VEHICLE OR ON FOOT





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