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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV

900 AM EDT FRI MAY 18 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO...FAR NORTHEAST 

KENTUCKY...WESTERN AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...AND BUCHANAN AND 

DICKENSON COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA THROUGH MIDNIGHT 

TONIGHT.... 



TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO CROSS OVER THE WATCH AREA EARLY 

THIS MORNING.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 TO 4 INCHES FELL ACROSS 

THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH THE HIGHER AMOUNTS OVER EASTERN 

KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST OHIO.  THIS RAIN HAS CAUSED NUMEROUS STREAMS 

AND CREEKS TO RISE AND HAS CAUSED FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE 

ENTIRE WATCH AREA.  



OVER EASTERN KENTUCKY...FLOODING IS OCCURRING OVER CARTER..GREENUP 

AND BOYD COUNTIES.  MINOR WATER PROBLEMS WERE NOTED OVER LAWRENCE 

COUNTY.  TYGART CREEK...IN CARTER AND GREENUP COUNTIES...WAS RISING 

RAPIDLY AND FLOODING WAS NOTED AND WILL CONTINUE ALL ALONG TYGART 

CREEK THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE EAST FORK OF THE 

LITTLE SANDY IN BOYD COUNTY WAS ALSO RISING RAPIDLY AND WILL CAUSE 

SOME FLOODING PROBLEMS.



OVER SOUTHEAST OHIO...NUMEROUS CREEKS WERE OUT OF THEIR BANKS AND 

NUMEROUS ROADS WERE CLOSED EARLIER THIS MORNING.  HOWEVER...MOST OF 

THE FLOODING HAS RECEDED...BUT COULD BE A PROBLEM AGAIN IF SHOWERS 

AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE AREA.  



OVER THE SOUTHWEST COALFIELDS OF WEST VIRGINIA...FLOODING PROBLEMS 

WERE NOTED OVER LOGAN...BOONE AND WYOMING COUNTIES. IN BOONE 

COUNTY...THE HUGHES AND SIX MILE CREEKS WERE RISING RAPIDLY AND 

CAUSING FLOODING PROBLEMS.  IN LOGAN COUNTY...IN THE SHARPLES AND 

GARRETTS FORK AREAS FLOODING PROBLEMS WERE NOTED.  IN WYOMING 

COUNTY...SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE ON THE RISE AGAIN.  IN OTHER

AREAS MINOR WATER PROBLEMS WERE NOTED ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION.  



THE WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS SERIOUS SITUATION.





<<< CALL TO ACTION >>> DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE

WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW

YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE

ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR ANY FURTHER 

STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. 



.END/SIKORA

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