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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
732 PM EST SAT FEB 15 2025
...FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR TOWN OF HURLEY AND SLATE CREEK NEAR
GRUNDY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BUCHANAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA...
DICKENSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 945 PM EST.
* AT 732 PM EST, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN THE
TOWN OF HURLEY AND SLATE CREEK NEAR GRUNDY. BETWEEN 2.5 AND 3.5
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN.
THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR TOWN OF HURLEY AND SLATE CREEK
NEAR GRUNDY. THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK
HIGHER GROUND NOW!
HAZARD...LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING.
SOURCE...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED.
IMPACT...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK
HIGHER GROUND NOW! LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOODING OF
LOW WATER CROSSINGS, SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, URBAN
AREAS, HIGHWAYS, STREETS AND UNDERPASSES.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
CLINTWOOD, GRUNDY, HAYSI, DAVENPORT, BREAKS INTERSTATE, JOHN
FLANNAGAN LAKE, BIG ROCK, TRAMMEL, CLINCHCO, VANSANT, ROSEANN,
OAKWOOD, STACY, NORA, MCCLURE AND HURLEY.
CATASTROPHIC FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING ALONG SLATE CREEK NEAR GRUNDY
AND KNOX CREEK NEAR HURLEY. SWIFT WATER RESCUES ARE ONGOING ALONG
SLATE CREEK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW! THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND
LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL UNLESS YOU ARE
FLEEING AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING OR UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER.
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
REPORT FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL
FREE, 800 401 9535, WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3747 8201 3734 8192 3730 8185 3729 8185
3725 8175 3720 8176 3717 8186 3713 8191
3712 8201 3705 8204 3704 8217 3700 8229
3696 8235 3702 8248 3713 8255 3714 8255
3716 8255 3720 8255 3727 8235 3753 8197
FLASH FLOOD...OBSERVED
FLASH FLOOD DAMAGE THREAT...CATASTROPHIC
JLB
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