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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service State College PA
423 PM EDT FRI AUG 31 2018

...FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR RAPHO...MOUNT JOY AND MANHEIM
TOWNSHIPS...

The National Weather Service in State College PA has extended the

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Northwestern Lancaster County in south central Pennsylvania...

* Until 730 PM EDT.

* At 419 PM EDT, local law enforcement reported severe flash
  flooding ongoing across the warned area. Over 9 inches of rain
  have fallen in 5 hours near Mount Joy. Route 283 has flooded and
  is closed in both directions at PA 772.

  This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for Rapho, Mount Joy and Manheim
Townships. Multiple water rescues are ongoing, with numerous roads
flooded and impassable, and in some cases washed away. This is a
PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Lancaster, Elizabethtown, Columbia, Lititz, Millersville, Willow
  Street, Mount Joy, Manheim, East Petersburg, Salunga-Landisville,
  Maytown, Rothsville, Mountville, Marietta, Wrightsville, Rheems,
  Bainbridge, Brickerville, Penryn and Washington Boro.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.

&&

LAT...LON 4005 7654 4004 7657 4006 7666 4012 7672
      4015 7670 4015 7668 4017 7666 4017 7664
      4023 7647 4025 7631 4029 7623 4028 7623
      4001 7624 3998 7650

$$

DeVoir
