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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY

256 PM EDT WED JUN 17 2009



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHWESTERN LAUREL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

  NORTHEASTERN MCCREARY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

  SOUTHERN PULASKI COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

  NORTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

  WHITLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

  SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...

  SOUTHWESTERN KNOX COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...



* UNTIL 600 PM EDT



* AT 253 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   

  PRECIPITATION HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING FROM            

  TORRENTIAL RAINFALL FALLING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALPINE...OR   

  13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOMERSET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.



* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO AREAS

  IN THE VICINITY OF CARPENTER...CLIO...FRAKES...GOINS...GOLDBUG...

  JULIP AND LUCKY.



FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY BE CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 

HEAVY RAIN AND MOVING REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREAS. THIS 

THUNDERSTORM IS TRACKING NEAR THE SAME PATH OF AN EARLIER 

THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED A RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO ONE AND ONE HALF 

INCHES. AS THIS NEXT STORM PASSES AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF 

RAIN COULD FALL. IN ADDITION...ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

COULD BRING HEAVY RAINFALL TO PARTS OF THE WARNING AREA LATER THIS 

AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. 



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO

AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY

DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL

ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED

ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



TO REPORT ANY FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL

FREE AT...1...8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.



&&



LAT...LON 3659 8406 3697 8479 3711 8478 3711 8446

      3667 8348 3662 8367 3658 8371



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