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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA

244 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EASTERN WYTHE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA



* UNTIL 545 PM EDT



* AT 242 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED DITCHES AND

  CULVERTS FLOWING AT BANKFULL IN THE EASTERN PART OF WYTHE COUNTY. 

  A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST THROUGH THE COUNTY

  WHERE INTERSTATES 77 AND 81 COINCIDE. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS   

  WILL IMPACT THE EASTERN PART OF WYTHE COUNTY OVER THE NEXT 45      

  MINUTES TO AN HOUR.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MAX MEADOWS

  AND GUNTON PARK.



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTES OF AN INCH 

ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR...WITH THE BULK 

OF THAT POSSIBLY OCCURRING IN LESS THAN ONE HALF OF AN HOUR.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE

BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



PLEASE RELAY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY

CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.



LAT...LON 3681 8103 3688 8078 3706 8093 3702 8110



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