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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY

920 AM EST SUN APR 14 2002



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM EST FOR 

WASHINGTON AND ORANGE COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WILL BE 

EXTENDED...



AT 1020 AM EDT (920 AM EST)...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE RAIN HAS 

ALL BUT ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THERE WILL ONLY BE A 

CHANCE OF SHOWERS THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON.



HOWEVER...LOCAL OFFICIALS FROM ORANGE COUNTY INDIANA INDICATED THAT 

SEWERS WERE BEGINNING TO BACK UP INTO BASEMENTS IN A FEW AREAS AND 

TWO COUNTY ROADS WERE COVERED WITH WATER AT THIS TIME.  LOCAL 

OFFICIALS FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY INDIANA REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS 

WERE CLOSED ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY AT 

THIS TIME DUE TO HIGH WATER. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT FROM 

ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN A CORRIDOR FROM SOUTHEASTERN 

ORANGE COUNTY THROUGH NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY INDIANA.



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM EST FOR 

DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...



OFFICIALS FROM DUBOIS COUNTY REPORTED NO MAJOR PROBLEMS AT THIS 

TIME...HOWEVER A VEHICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM HIGH WATER EARLIER THIS 

MORNING AROUND 800 AM EDT (700 AM EST). THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD 

WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.



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