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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV

440 PM EST FRI FEB 16 2001



THE FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN WEST VIRGINIA...



  BARBOUR...      BOONE...        BRAXTON...      CALHOUN...

  CLAY...         FAYETTE...      GILMER...       HARRISON...

  KANAWHA...      LEWIS...        LOGAN...        MCDOWELL...

  MINGO...        NICHOLAS...     POCAHONTAS...   RALEIGH...

  RANDOLPH...     ROANE...        TAYLOR...       UPSHUR...

  WEBSTER...      WYOMING...



IN VIRGINIA...



  BUCHANAN...     DICKENSON...



RAIN WILL AFFECT THE AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING.  HOWEVER...AT THIS 

TIME...IT APPEARS THAT...THE COMBINATION OF WHAT HAS FALLEN OVER THE 

PAST COUPLE OF DAYS...AND WHAT WILL FALL TONIGHT...WILL NOT BE 

ENOUGH TO CAUSE SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS OVERNIGHT.  WHILE SOME RIVERS 

ACROSS THE NORTH WERE RUNNING HIGH THIS AFTERNOON...MOST HAD CRESTED 

AND NONE ARE EXPECTED TO EXCEED 3/4 BANKFULL.



THE FLOOD WATCH IS THUS CANCELED.



SMALLER STREAMS HERE AND THERE MAY APPROACH BANKFULL...BUT NOTHING 

MORE THAN SCATTERED MINOR FLOODING IS ANTICIPATED OVERNIGHT.  DRY 

WEATHER IS ON TAP FOR THE WEEKEND.



.END/ NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV

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