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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
441 PM EDT THU JUN 23 2016

...FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR GREENBRIER COUNTY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GREENBRIER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 427 PM EDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED SIGNIFICANT FLASH
  FLOODING ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES WATER
  RESCUES...NUMEROUS ROAD CLOSURES...AND FLOODED HOMES. RAINFALL
  AMOUNTS TODAY HAVE BEEN AS HIGH AS 7 INCHES AS REPORTED BY GAUGES
  AND RADAR.

  FLASH FLOODING LEVELS ARE BECOMING HISTORIC AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY
  RAINFALL IS ON THE WAY BETWEEN 430 PM AND 6PM EDT...WHICH WILL
  CAUSE EVEN MORE SEVERE FLOODING. THIS RAINFALL WILL ALSO LIKELY
  RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT MUD SLIDES NEAR  STEEP TERRAIN. MUD SLIDES
  CAN CONSIST OF ROCK...MUD...VEGETATION AND OTHER LOOSE
  MATERIALS...AND ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

  THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR GREENBRIER COUNTY...AND
  SUPERCEDES ALL PREVIOUS FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR THE
  COUNTY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  QUINWOOD...
  MEADOW BLUFF...
  WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS...
  RUPERT...
  RENICK...
  AND RAINELLE.

ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS WITH MORE THUNDERSTORMS OF UP TO
TWO MORE INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE
THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL UNLESS YOU ARE
FLEEING AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING OR UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER.

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO...PLEASE SEND YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING...
INCLUDING MUDSLIDES OR ROAD CLOSURES...TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. REPORTS
AND PICTURES CAN ALSO BE SHARED ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
BLACKSBURG FACEBOOK PAGE AND ON TWITTER.

&&

LAT...LON 3822 8036 3811 8036 3805 8026 3806 7996
      3805 7998 3787 8016 3770 8028 3769 8038
      3772 8040 3769 8046 3773 8066 3787 8080
      3787 8075 3795 8081 3799 8077 3804 8083
      3806 8080 3808 8089 3808 8071 3827 8044

$$

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