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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY

1030 PM EDT SAT AUG 11 2001



...THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR LETCHER 

COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM EDT...



AT 1025 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT JUST 

LIGHT RAIN REMAINS FROM THE EARLIER THUNDERSTORM THAT AFFECTED THE 

WHITESBURG AREA. THIS STORM STAYED IN PLACE OVER CRAFTS COLLY CREEK 

JUST NORTHEAST OF WHITESBURG DROPPING A RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 2.5 

INCHES OF RAIN. A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS THAT THIS LOCALIZED HEAVY 

RAINFALL LEAD TO THE CREEK LEAVING ITS BANKS AND CULVERTS STOPPING 

UP. AS A RESULT...THE WATER RAN OVER THE ROAD AND ALSO WASHED OUT A 

COUPLE OF BRIDGES. ALTHOUGH THE ACCUMULATING RAIN HAS JUST ABOUT 

ENDED...CREEKS...STREAMS AND CULVERTS WILL REMAIN HIGH FOR THE NEXT 

COUPLE OF HOURS. 



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GREIF

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