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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
500 AM EDT THU SEP 29 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HARNETT COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...
  EASTERN HOKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 930 AM EDT

* AT 454 AM EDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WIDESPREAD
  FLOODING ON ROADS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FIVE TO AS MUCH AS EIGHT
  INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE
  POSSIBLE EARLY THIS MORNING. MORNING COMMUTERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
  ROAD CLOSURES AS WELL AS FLOODING ON ROADS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN
  CLOSED. REDUCE SPEED AS STANDING WATER WILL BE DIFFICULT TO SEE
  PRIOR TO SUNRISE.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  FAYETTEVILLE...FORT BRAGG...DUNN...GODWIN...POPE AFB...
  HOPE MILLS...SPRING LAKE...ERWIN AND EASTOVER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND
UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3490 7894 3495 7904 3484 7919 3517 7913
      3517 7910 3519 7910 3521 7913 3538 7910
      3546 7864 3534 7854 3525 7861 3520 7863
      3520 7864 3517 7863 3509 7867 3507 7867
      3499 7864 3485 7851 3485 7883 3483 7890

$$

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