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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV

453 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2001



...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL BUT NORTHEAST 

WEST VIRGINIA...



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR ALL BUT 

POCAHONTAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...



...SOME FLOODING PROBLEMS PERSIST WHERE THE RAIN HAS ENDED AND 

WATCHES AND WARNINGS HAVE BEEN DROPPED...



AS OF 445 PM...THE HEAVIEST OF THE RAIN WAS OVER NORTHEAST WEST 

VIRGINIA...OVER POCAHONTAS...RANDOLPH...BARBOUR AND TAYLOR 

COUNTIES.  THIS RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST...AND SHOULD BE OUT OF THE 

AREA BY SUNDOWN.  



SOME OF THE WORST FLOODING TODAY HAS BEEN OBSERVED IN KANAWHA 

COUNTY.  WHILE CONDITIONS HAVE STARTED TO IMPROVE IN THE TRACE FORK 

AND KANAWHA STATE FOREST AREAS...PROBLEMS PERSISTED IN THE 

SISSONVILLE AREA.  THERE WAS WATER ACROSS ROUTE 21 BLOCKING THAT 

ROADWAY.  THERE WERE PEOPLE TRAPPED IN A VEHICLE EARLIER IN THE 

AFTERNOON.  WATER WAS STILL RISING IN THE TWO MILE AREA.



IN OTHER AREAS...MANY STREAMS WERE OUT OF THEIR BANKS AND WATER 

COVERED ROADS...MOSTLY IN SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES SUCH AS 

LOGAN...RALEIGH AND WYOMING COUNTIES.



THE SMALL STREAMS WILL CREST THIS EVENING AS THE WATER FLOWS INTO 

THE LARGER CREEKS AND RIVERS...WHERE THERE WILL BE SOME RISES 

OVERNIGHT.  THESE INCLUDE THE COAL...GUYANDOTTE AND THE KANAWHA.  

WHILE THERE WILL BE SOME BACKWATER FLOODING AND OTHER MINOR 

FLOODING...NO MAJOR RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT.





<<< 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.



.END/TRM/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

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