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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV

ISSUED BY NWS JACKSON KY

1250 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM EDT THURSDAY

AFTERNOON FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN VIRGINIA

     SOUTHWESTERN BUCHANAN



AT 1239 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SLOW MOVING 

THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWESTERN BUCHANAN COUNTY. 

RADAR ESTIMATES OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE 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 FLOODING.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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