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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY

452 PM EDT WED JUN 17 2009



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHWESTERN MARTIN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...

  NORTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...

  NORTHERN PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...



* UNTIL 745 PM EDT



* AT 448 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  PRECIPITATION HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING FROM            

  TORRENTIAL RAINFALL FALLING FROM THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MCANDREWS...OR 

  9 MILES SOUTH OF WILLIAMSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR

  ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS FALLING AS 

  THIS STORM PASSES.



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

  IN THE VICINITY OF PHELPS...COLEMAN...PAW PAW...ARGO...BOARD       

  TREE...HARDY...KIMPER...SIDNEY...META...BIG CREEK AND JAMBOREE.



FLASH FLOODING IS BEING CAUSED BY EXCESSIVE RUNOFF AS THE 

THUNDERSTORMS PASS AND THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM RECENT 

HEAVY PRECIPITATION THAT HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA THIS MONTH.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



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 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.



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LAT...LON 3738 8218 3766 8269 3772 8265 3759 8213

      3756 8213 3756 8208 3754 8206 3756 8205

      3754 8203 3755 8197 3753 8196



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