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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

950 AM CDT SAT JUN 16 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SMITH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...

  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WHITEHOUSE...TYLER...



* UNTIL 1245 PM CDT



* AT 950 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  HEAVY RAINFALL PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS COVERING ALL OF SMITH 

  COUNTY.  DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE 

  FALLEN SINCE 7 AM OVER NORTHWESTERN SMITH COUNTY...WITH RAINFALL 

  RATES OF 1.5 INCHES NOTED.  LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED THAT 

  COUNTY ROAD 463 WAS ALREADY IMPASSIBLE DUE TO HIGH WATER.  WITH 

  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO AND ACROSS THE 

  COUNTY...POSSIBLY PRODUCING ANOTHER 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL...

  ADDITIONAL FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LINDALE



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES

AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



LAT...LON 3215 9545 3214 9500 3252 9500 3261 9549

      3267 9558 3250 9558 3236 9544



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