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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTION

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN

800 AM EST WED MAY 8 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN PART OF

CENTRAL INDIANA FROM VINCENNES TO NORTH VERNON.



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR KNOX...DAVIESS AND MARTIN

COUNTIES UNTIL 930 AM EST...LAWRENCE COUNTY UNTIL 1000 AM EST AND

JENNINGS AND JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 1030 AM EST.



AT 630 AM EST DAVIESS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED WATER FLOWING ONTO

PORTIONS OF STATE ROAD 257 SOUTH OF WASHINGTON.  KNOW COUNTY SHERIFF 

AT 745 AM EST REPORTED NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS WERE UNDERWATER.



RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE LOCAL RAIN AMOUNTS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES OF

RAINFALL SINCE MIDNIGHT FROM JUST SOUTH OF VINCENNES TO JUST SOUTH OF

BEDFORD. ONE AND A HALF TO TWO INCH RAIN AMOUNTS WERE THE RULE IN THE

SEYMOUR AND NORTH VERNON AREAS.  MODERATE RAINFALL SHOULD CONTINUE TO

MID MORNING.



DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS AS THIS IS THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF

FLASH FLOOD DEATHS.  IF HIGH WATER IS ENCOUNTERED...YOU SHOULD 

EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY. 

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