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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV

930 AM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR FAYETTE COUNTY UNTIL 1045 AM 

EDT...



SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...THURMOND...SMITHERS...

POWELLTON...OAK HILL...HAWKS NEST STATE PARK...GAULEY BRIDGE...

FAYETTEVILLE AND ANSTED.



AT 930 AM EDT...FAYETTE COUNTY 911 REPORTED FLOODING ON ROUTE 60 

NEAR GAULEY BRIDGE...AND ON ROUTE 39 NEAR THE GAULEY RIVER.  ROUTE 

39 WILL BE CLOSED SHORTLY.  STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN GAULEY 

BRIDGE AND OAK HILL.  MANY SMALL STREAMS WERE OVERFLOWING THEIR 

BANKS.



<<CALL TO ACTION>> EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH

FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.

ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.



PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING

TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.



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LAT...LON 3788 8112 3816 8093 3822 8100 3820 8109

          3824 8113 3825 8125 3816 8133 3798 8138

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