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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON

808 PM EDT SAT AUG 3 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR



  NELSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA



AT 755 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A

THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 27 MILES SOUTH OF

CHARLOTTESVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 4 MPH.



RAINFALL FROM THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WAS ESTIMATED 

TO BE BETWEEN AROUND 6 INCHES EAST OF LOVINGSTON. ADDITIONAL 

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CROSSING THE SAME AREA THROUGH 9PM. THIS WILL 

LIKELY PRODUCE WASHED OUT ROADS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. 

STREAMS...SUCH AS CEDAR BRANCH...WILL LIKELY EXCEED BANKFULL AND BE 

RUNNING SWIFTLY.



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

ROADWAYS. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE

TO HIGHER GROUND.



$$



LAT...LON 3776 7860 3772 7882 3744 7875 3752 7843



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