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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV

800 AM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001



AFTER SUNRISE...THE MAIN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED 

SOUTH OF TYLER...DODDRIDGE...AND HARRISON COUNTIES.



DURING THE PREDAWN HOURS...2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL 

FROM THE MIDDLEBOURNE AND JOSEPHS MILLS REGION OF TYLER COUNTY...ON 

EAST...THROUGH DODDRIDGE COUNTY...TO THE SALEM AND KINCHELOE REGION 

OF HARRSION COUNTY.  WEST UNION OF DODDRIDGE COUNTY REPORTED A 24 

HOUR RAIN TOTAL OF 3.4 INCHES...MOST OF WHICH FELL BETWEEN 3 AND 6 

OCLOCK THIS MORNING.  A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WAS POSTED.



WATER PROBLEMS WILL STILL LINGER THIS MORNING...BUT THE SMALLER

CREEKS AND RUNS WERE STARTING TO RECEDE.  DODDRIDGE COUNTY OFFICIALS 

REPORTED THE MAIN PROBLEMS WERE MUDSLIDES AND WATER OVER ROADS.

NO HOMES WERE KNOWN TO HAVE FLOODED.  THE FIRE HOUSE IN WEST UNION

WAS DAMAGED BY A MUDSLIDE.  MCELROY CREEK...AND ITS VARIOUS FORKS...

FLOODED ROADS AROUND CENTER POINT AND SEDALIA.



MIDDLE ISLAND CREEK WILL HANDLE A LOT OF THIS RUNOFF.  SO MIDDLE

ISLAND CREEK WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH...THROUGH DODDRIDGE AND TYLER 

COUNTIES.  

              

.END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

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