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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

523 PM CDT MON AUG 15 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  OUACHITA PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA



* UNTIL 730 PM CDT



* AT 520 PM CDT...SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR

  INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN OUACHITA

  PARISH. 



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLAIBORNE.



FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR

IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...

DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...

EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER

GROUND.



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.



TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY

YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN

SHREVEPORT.



REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD

WARNING FOR...

  OUACHITA PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA

UNTIL 730 PM CDT.



LAT...LON 3232 9229 3242 9240 3257 9240 3257 9233

      3259 9231 3259 9223 3263 9218 3229 9218

      3229 9229



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