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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO

1101 PM MDT MON JUN 1 2009



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO



* UNTIL 300 AM MDT



* AT 1053 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLYOKE.

  THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THE PHILLIPS COUNTY SHERIFF 

  REPORTED FLOODING OVER HIGHWAY 385 AND COUNTY ROAD 16...AS WELL

  AS ACROSS COUNTY ROAD 21 AND COUNTY ROAD 10.



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

  VALLEY AND HOLYOKE.



DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES AND WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORT THAT BETWEEN

3 AND 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE WARNING AREA FROM AROUND

HOLYOKE TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF HIGHLAND CENTER.  THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL

HAS FALLEN FROM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF PAOLI TO 12 MILES SOUTH OF

PAOLI.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS INCLUDING SANDY CREEK AND PATENT CREEK...COUNTRY

ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG

THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. THIS INCLUDES SANDY CREEK AND

PATENT CREEK.



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

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

CROSS SAFELY. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A

FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR

VEHICLE. TURN AROUND...DO NOT DROWN.



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