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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

$$

PELTON