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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME

500 PM EDT MON JUL 17 2006



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AROOSTOOK ME-

500 PM EDT MON JUL 17 2006



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR

NORTHEASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY...



AT 451 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 

INDICATE A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.  THESE 

STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM MADAWASKA TO CARIBOU...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 

10 MPH.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND 

FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING 

AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING AND WASHOUTS.  SPECIFIC WATERWAYS 

SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HALFWAY 

BROOK...DAIGLE BROOK...THE LITTLE MADAWASKA RIVER AND THE SMALL 

TRIBUTARIES OF THE ST. JON RIVER...FROM MADAWASKA TO VAN BUREN.



LAT...LON 4739 6852 4681 6817 4688 6772 4752 6816



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