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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA

155 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES AND 

INDEPENDENT CITIES UNTIL 300 PM EDT...SOUTHERN AND WESTERN 

MERCER...TAZEWELL AND BLAND COUNTIES...



AT 155 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 

NARROW BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 4 MILES EAST 

OF CLIFFIELD...OR 4 MILES WEST OF TAZEWELL...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.



HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LINGER OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN 

TAZEWELL COUNTY BEFORE THE RAIN BEGINS TO TAPER OFF BY 3:00 PM. LOOK 

FOR ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN FROM TAZEWELL WEST TO 

RICHLANDS. THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE MANY SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO 

OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS BEFORE THE RAINFALL DIMINISHES.



THE PERSISTENT RAINFALL OVER MERCER AND BLAND COUNTIES HAS ENDED. 

CREEKS AND STREAMS WERE STARTING TO RECEDE BUT FLOODING WILL LIKELY 

CONTINUE...ESPECIALLY AROUND THE BLUEFIELD AND PRINCETON AREAS 

THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON.



<<CALL TO ACTION>>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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JH

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