Flash Flood Warning

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
434 PM EDT FRI SEP 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  THE CITY OF PETERSBURG IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  THE CITY OF HOPEWELL IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  THE CITY OF COLONIAL HEIGHTS IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 432 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO ONE INCH OF RAIN
  HAS ALREADY FALLEN WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES
  POSSIBLE THROUGH 6 PM. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  PETERSBURG...HOPEWELL...COLONIAL HEIGHTS...VIRGINIA STATE
  UNIVERSITY...CHESTER...FORT LEE...PRINCE GEORGE...CHESTERFIELD
  COURT HOUSE...MATOACA...ETTRICK...BENSLEY...BELLWOOD...
  CHESTERFIELD...BIRCHETT ESTATE...JORDAN POINT COUNTRY CLUB...
  MEADOWVILLE...RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE...PRINCE GEORGE GOLF...NEW
  BOHEMIA AND DREWRYS BLUFF.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES  ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA. DUE TO RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE PAST 3
DAYS...FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED.

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.