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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN

900 AM EST WED MAY 8 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE 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.



COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORTED MANY COUNTY ROADS UNDER WATER IN 

KNOX...DAVIESS AND MARTIN COUNTIES AT 800 AM EST. 

 

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. 



WEATHER RADAR AT 855 AM EST AND SURFACE REPORTS INDICATE THAT THE 

HEAVIER RAINFALL HAS MOVED EASTWARD TO EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST 

INDIANA. LIGHT SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THE MORNING 

OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL 

AMOUNTS UNDER ONE TENTH OF AN INCH.

 

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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