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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL

744 PM CDT SAT SEP 13 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN COOK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...

  EAST CENTRAL WILL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...

  LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA...

  PORTER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA...



* UNTIL 730 AM CDT SUNDAY...



* AT 740 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED FLASH

  FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WARNING AREA.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING GENERALLY INCLUDE THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS 

OF THE CHICAGO METRO AREA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM JOLIET TO WHITING AND 

EXTENDING INTO MUCH OF LAKE AND PORTER COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST INDIANA.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 3 TO 6 INCHES HAS FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF THE 

WARNING AREA SINCE FRIDAY. RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL RATES OF ONE 

INCH TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES PER HOUR WITH THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE 

WARNING AREA THIS EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COMBINED WITH THE 

HEAVY RAINFALL OF THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. 

PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.

IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE

PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS

SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY

AUTOMOBILE.



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF

RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. 



LAT...LON 4133 8720 4130 8784 4151 8802 4160 8770

      4168 8752 4168 8741 4165 8740 4163 8728

      4166 8713 4170 8705 4170 8693 4140 8693



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