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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA

1013 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  WATAUGA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 400 AM EDT.



* AT 1000 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED SIGNIFICANT

  RISES ON AREA STREAMS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. THE

  COOPERATIVE OBSERVER AT THE BOONE WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT

  INDICATED A LOW WATER CROSSING WITH WATER FLOWING OVER IT. THIS

  LOW WATER CROSSING WAS LOCATED ON THE SOUTH FORK OF THE NEW RIVER.



* THIS IS A COUNTYWIDE WARNING. THE HEAVIEST RAIN SO FAR HAS BEEN

  IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY SOUTH OF BOONE. BETWEEN 2 TO 4

  INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE COUNTY WITH REPORTS OF AROUND

  5 INCHES SOUTH OF BOONE NORTH CAROLINA.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL

  CONTINUE OVERNIGHT...AND WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES. STREAMS WILL

  CONTINUE TO RISE AND FLASH FLOODING MAY OCCUR WITH LITTLE OR NO

  WARNING.  MUD SLIDES MAY ALSO BECOME A CONCERN AS THE GROUND

  BECOMES SATURATED.



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 

WARNED AREA OVERNIGHT.



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

BLACKSBURG.



PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING INCLUDING MUDSLIDES...OR ROAD

CLOSURES TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG BY CALLING

TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. DELAYED REPORTS ARE WELCOME.



LAT...LON 3634 8182 3633 8174 3634 8171 3636 8174

      3639 8174 3634 8164 3627 8156 3624 8149

      3619 8145 3611 8155 3612 8168 3611 8181

      3616 8183 3621 8191 3627 8189 3629 8191



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