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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY

1140 PM EDT FRI SEP 17 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  WYOMING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA



* UNTIL 545 AM EDT



* AT 1139 PM EDT...COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED    

  WIDESPREAD FLOODING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.  SOME OF THE HARDEST    

  HIT AREAS ARE IN TUNKHANNOCK TOWNSHIP...WHERE SWAIL BROOK HAS      

  OVERFLOWED ITS BANKS AND IMPACTED HOMES...AS WELL AS FLOODED ROUTE 

  29.  ROUTE 6 IS ALSO CLOSED IN MESHOPPEN...WHERE MUD SLIDES ARE    

  OCCURRING.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO            

  TUNKHANNOCK...OSTERHOUT...NOXEN...NICHOLSON...MESHOPPEN...         

  MEHOOPANY...LOVELTON...LAKE CAREY...KASSON BROOK...FORKSTON...     

  FALLS...EVANS FALLS AND BEAUMONT.



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES 

OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS WYOMING COUNTY SINCE FRIDAY MORNING.  

BANDS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT...WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 

2 INCHES OF RAIN POSSIBLE BY 4 AM...WORSENING EXISTING FLOOD 

PROBLEMS.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE

UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.



LAT...LON 4163 7576 4142 7586 4139 7627 4164 7621



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MJ

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