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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
403 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 2006

.VERY MOIST TROPICAL AIR IN PLACE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA WILL COMBINE WITH LIFT PROVIDED BY IMPULSES
ROUNDING AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MEANDERING OVER
TEXAS. A SOUTH TO NORTH TRAINING OF STORMS OVER THE SAME AREA THAT
RECEIVED 4 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN YESTERDAY COULD DEVELOP.

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BEAUREGARD-CALCASIEU-CAMERON-TYLER-JASPER-NEWTON-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-
ORANGE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DERIDDER...LAKE CHARLES...CAMERON...
WOODVILLE...JASPER...NEWTON...LUMBERTON...BEAUMONT/PORT ARTHUR...
ORANGE
403 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 2006

...FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE FLOOD WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR

* PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
  INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
  BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU AND CAMERON AND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...
  HARDIN...JASPER...JEFFERSON...NEWTON...ORANGE AND TYLER.

* UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING

* AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE IN PLACE OVER
  CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE IS IN PLACE
  ACROSS THE REGION. INSTABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER LEVEL
  LOW WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
  THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
  THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A SOUTH TO NORTH MOVEMENT OF THE
  STORMS COULD RESULT IN BRINGING HEAVY RAINS REPEATEDLY TO AREAS
  WHERE VERY HEAVY RAINS FELL YESTERDAY. THE SHOWERS AND
  THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH BY LATE EVENING. 

* AREAS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE
  IN THE WATCH AREA THROUGH EVENING...WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF 4
  TO 5 INCHES OR MORE POSSIBLE IN A FEW SPOTS.

A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON
CURRENT FORECASTS AND SOIL CONDITIONS.

YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP.

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