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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV

1207 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR KANAWHA COUNTY HAS EXPIRED BUT A FLASH 

FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM TUESDAY MORNING...



THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS SUBSIDED FOR THE TIME BEING AND CREEKS AND 

STREAMS HAVE CRESTED IN KANAWHA COUNTY.  THEY WILL BE RECEDING 

GRADUALLY THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON.  FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO BE A 

PROBLEM UNTIL LATER THIS AFTERNOON IN MANY PLACES AS WATER REACHED 

HIGH LEVELS...ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA FROM CHARLESTON TO NEAR PINCH 

AND ELKVIEW.  IN ADDITION...WATER WILL BE TRAPPED IN LOW SPOTS AS 

THE CREEKS AND STREAMS RECEDED.  



MOTORISTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION AS MUD SLIDES 

WILL BE COMMON AND PORTIONS OF ROAD WAYS WILL BE WASHED OUT.  DO NOT 

TRY TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER.  HIDDEN WASH OUTS WILL CREATE DANGEROUS 

CONDITIONS.



WHILE THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS SUBSIDED FOR THE TIME BEING...A 

WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.  THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN 

COULD REDEVELOP AT ANY TIME.  WITH THE GROUND SOAKED AND STREAMS 

HIGH...EVEN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL CREATE PROBLEMS 

AGAIN.

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