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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

741 AM CDT TUE SEP 9 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHERN SMITH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...

  WESTERN UPSHUR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...

  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...

  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MINEOLA...



* UNTIL 930 AM CDT



* AT 737 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT

  INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING EXCESSIVE HEAVY RAINFALL 

  ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST WOOD COUNTY...EXTREME NORTHERN SMITH

  COUNTY AND WESTERN UPSHUR COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF

  NEAR TWO INCHES PER HOUR WERE COMMON EARLIER NEAR THE QUITMAN

  AREA WITH AN ADDITIONAL TWO INCHES LIKELY NORTHEAST OF LINDALE OR

  JUST NORTH AND WEST OF HAWKINS TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THIS ACTIVITY WAS

  TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR 15 MPH BUT STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP WEST OF

  THE WARNING AREA. AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL 

  WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 



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

  AND HAWKINS TEXAS.



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 3295 9515 3291 9515 3291 9504 3243 9500

      3251 9542 3272 9562 3296 9565



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