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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA

815 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001



...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED...



AT 810 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 

TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ACROSS NEWPORT NEWS...HAMPTON AND NORTHERN 

CHESAPEAKE AND SUFFOLK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.



THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...

  DEEP CREEK...PORTLOCK AT 820 PM EDT.

  HERBERTS CORNER...GREENBRIER AT 825 PM EDT.

  GREAT BRIDGE...CHESAPEAKE AIRPORT AT 830 PM EDT.

  FENTRESS...OCEANA NAS AT 835 PM EDT.

  HICKORY...MOUNT PLEASANT AT 840 PM EDT.



RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR ARE LIKELY AS THE 

STORMS CROSS THE HAMPTON ROADS AREA THIS EVENING. THIS MUCH RAINFALL 

WILL PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS....AND MINOR FLOODING OF 

HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



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