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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
853 AM CDT SUN AUG 27 2017

...FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR Jefferson...Hardin and Soutwest
Jasper and Western Orange Counties...

The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has extended the

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Jefferson County in southeastern Texas...
  Hardin County in southeastern Texas...
  Orange County in southeastern Texas...
  South central Jasper County in southeastern Texas...

* Until 315 PM CDT Sunday

* At 846 AM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
  heavy rain falling across the warned area. Five to Ten inches of
  rain have fallen overnight. Flash flooding is already occurring
  and will continue to get progressively worse as a persistent heavy
  rain band has set up over the area. Please stay where you are
  located today unless the location you are at begins to flood.

  This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY! This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS
SITUATION. Shelter in place unless the location your are at begins
to flood!

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange, Nederland, Groves, Port Neches,
  Lumberton, Vidor, Bridge City, Silsbee, West Orange, Kountze, Sour
  Lake, Nome, Evadale, Central Gardens, Thicket, Saratoga, Hamshire
  and Wildwood.

Additional rainfall amounts of five to ten inches are 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3049 9454 3053 9454 3053 9408 3016 9389
      3010 9372 3008 9373 3006 9370 3000 9377
      2999 9386 2993 9386 2984 9395 2980 9395
      2968 9385 2967 9406 2956 9436 2989 9436
      2989 9444 3011 9445 3011 9460 3049 9473

$$
