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FLOOD STATEMENT


NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PAGO PAGO AS


650 AM SST TUE FEB 01 2005





...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN  TAFUNA HAS CONTINUED A





* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...


   TUTUILA AUNUU AND MANUA ISLANDS





* UNTIL 10 AM SST





* AT 650 AM SST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RECORDED 1.40 INCHES SINCE 3


AM SST.  HEAVY SHOWERS ARE DEVELOPING SOUTH OF TUTUILA AND


MANUA...AND ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH.  THE GROUND IS SATURATED


AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. 


THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CONTINUED.





THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING REPLACES THE PRE-EXISTING WARNING THAT


WAS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE ISLANDS.





EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS INSTABILITY WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF


STREAMS AND COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.





MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLOODING AND SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO


CROSS FAST FLOWING OR RISING WATER...MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR


WHEN MOTORISTS TRY CROSSING FLOODED ROADWAYS.  





ESCAPE RISING WATER BY CLIMBING DIRECTLY TO HIGHER GROUND.  NEVER


TRY TO OUTRACE A FLOOD...EITHER ON FOOT OR IN YOUR VEHICLE.  DO NOT


CAMP NEAR STREAMS OR OTHER AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING.





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BAQUI





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