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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA

600 PM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001



...TORRENTIAL RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLOODING FROM THE PENINSULA INTO 

RICHMOND AND THE TRI CITIES AREAS...



AT 555 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL FROM POQUOSON AND 

NEWPORT NEWS WESTWARD TO WAKEFIELD...RICHMOND AND THE TRI CITIES 

AREAS. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHWARD AROUND 20 MPH...AND PRODUCING 

RAINFALL OF ONE TO 2.5 INCHES PER HOUR. A SPOTTER IN JAMES CITY 

COUNTY REPORTED 2.15 INCHES OF RAIN IN 45 MINUTES...AND SOME STREET 

FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN PETERSBURG. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY 

RAIN...FREQUENT DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF 

HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. USE EXTRA CAUTION WHILE 

TRAVELING IN THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...AND BE PREPARED FOR RAPID 

CHANGES IN DRIVING CONDITIONS DUE TO HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR 

VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES 

CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED.



THE THREAT FOR FLOODING WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE ACROSS THE REGION 

AFTER 730 PM.



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