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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA

920 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PATRICK COUNTY...



UNTIL 1030 PM EDT.



SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE....



*  CLAUDVILLE

*  STUART



AT 918 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORM 

THAT PRODUCED MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AND CROSSING 

INTO HENRY COUNTY. HOWEVER...OTHER SMALLER STORMS ARE MOVING BACK 

INTO WESTERN PATRICK COUNTY.  RUNOFF FROM PREVIOUS RAINFALL AND THAT 

FROM THE NEW STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF LOW 

LYING AREAS AND SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE WESTERN HALF OF 

PATRICK COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES URBAN FLOODING IN STUART.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT

QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY

IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY

CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.



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