BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1043 PM CDT WED JUN 24 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR…
SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…
NORTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…
LUCAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…
MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…
APPANOOSE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA…

* UNTIL 445 AM CDT THURSDAY

* AT 1040 PM CDT…DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN ALREADY AND ON TOP OF ALREADY SATURATED GROUND FROM
PREVIOUS RAINS. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE…
CENTERVILLE…CHARITON…ALBIA…CORYDON…MELCHER-DALLAS…
EDDYVILLE…RATHBUN LAKE…LAKE SUNDOWN…SEYMOUR…MORAVIA…
MOULTON…RUSSELL…LOVILIA…HUMESTON…MYSTIC…BUSSEY…
CINCINNATI…EXLINE…WILLIAMSON AND HAMILTON.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES OR MORE ARE
POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA THRUOGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

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

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LAT…LON 4078 9343 4090 9354 4116 9336 4116 9333
4123 9331 4120 9287 4116 9287 4116 9264
4059 9264 4058 9310

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CURTIS