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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL

1035 AM EDT SUN SEP 26 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CENTRAL POLK COUNTY...

  INCLUDING WINTER HAVEN...LAKELAND...BARTOW...AUBURNDALE...

  MULBERRY...AND LAKELAND HIGHLANDS.



...UNTIL 1115 AM EDT.



AT 1035 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO 

INDICATE RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR WITH HEAVY RAIN

BANDS ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE JEANNE WHICH WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTH 

CENTRAL POLK COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF BARTOW. DOPPLER RADAR 

ESTIMATES OF 6 TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE WARNING AREA 

SINCE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND

CREEKS...SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS NOW TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO

NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS...OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN

DEPTH...BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT

AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND

INTERSECTIONS. POOR DRAINAGE AREAS ARE MOST AT RISK. DO NOT DRIVE

THROUGH FLOODED ROADS



DONT BECOME A STATISTIC. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN





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LAT...LON 2813 8167 2790 8162 2779 8197 2809 8201



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