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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN

505 AM EST TUE MAY 7 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN FOR SEVERAL COUNTIES OVER CENTRAL

INDIANA FOR EARLY THIS MORNING...



THIS INCLUDES VERMILLION AND PARKE COUNTIES UNTIL 615 AM EST...

AND PUTMAN...HENDRICKS...MARION...JOHNSON...SHELBY AND RUSH COUNTIES

UNTIL 745 AM EST.  A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR MORGAN

COUNTY UNTIL 800 AM EST.



AT 437 AM EST VERMILLION COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED SOME EVACUATIONS IN

NORTHERN CLINTON AS WATER FROM FEATHER CREEK WAS FLOWING ONTO

ROADWAYS.



THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS OF WATER FLOWING ACROSS STATE ROAD 40 NEAR

PLAINFIED IN HENDRICKS COUNTY AND...2 FEET OF WATER ON GADSEN IN

SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY.  BOTH OF THOSE REPORTS WERE RECEIVED BETWEEN

400 AM EST AND 440 AM EST.



RADAR INDICATED AS MUCH AS 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAVE FALLEN OVER

PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL INDIANA SINCE 200 AM EST.



A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL

INDIANA THIS MORNING.



DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS AND REPORT SERIOUS FLOODING TO THE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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