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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV

506 AM EST FRI FEB 16 2001



A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY.  A STRONG FRONTAL SYSTEM

WAS IN OUR VICINITY THIS MORNING...AND MARKED THE DIVIDING LINE

BETWEEN WINTER AND SPRING.  THIS FRONT WILL BEGIN TO SAG SOUTH 

THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...ALLOWING COLDER AIR TO REACH 

TONIGHT.



NO HEAVY RAIN FELL OVERNIGHT.  NO FLOODING WAS REPORTED.  THIS 

ALLOWED A CREST TO OCCUR ON THE TYGART VALLEY RIVER AT ABOUT THE 

THREE QUARTER BANKFULL LEVEL.  THE WATER LEVEL AT PHILIPPI IN 

BARBOUR COUNTY WAS JUST UNDER 14 FEET.  FLOOD STAGE IS 17 FEET THERE.

RAINS OF A HALF INCH TO AN INCH WOULD NEED TO FALL TODAY...TO CAUSE

A SECOND CREST TO APPROACH BANKFULL LATE TODAY OR TONIGHT.     



PERIODS OF RAIN AND DRIZZLE WILL BE COMMON TODAY.  AS LONG AS THE 

HEAVIER PATCHES OF RAIN DO NOT PASS ACROSS THE SAME AREAS...WE

SHOULD ESCAPE WITHOUT A FLOOD EPISODE.  HOPEFULLY...THE HEAVIER

RAINS WILL REMAIN TO OUR SOUTH TODAY.   



HOWEVER...SEVERAL AREAS ARE ALREADY SATURATED FROM THE RECENT 

RAINS.  ONE WET AREA WAS IN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...FROM ROANE 

COUNTY ON EAST...THROUGH THE FLATWOODS VICINITY...THEN INTO THE 

MOUNTAINS OF UPSHUR AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES.  A SECOND AREA THAT 

RECEIVED HEAVIER RAINS ON THURSDAY WAS IN THE COAL FIELDS OF MINGO 

COUNTY...ON SOUTH INTO BUCHANAN AND DICKENSON COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA.  

THOSE COUNTIES WOULD BE MOST VULNERABLE FOR STREAM OVERFLOW...IF

HEAVIER RAINS FALL THERE TODAY.



REPEATING...THE FLOOD WATCH REMAINS POSTED TODAY...BUT NO WARNINGS

WERE IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING.

  

.END / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON 





  



   

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