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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
434 PM EDT THU APR 3 2025
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...
KANAWHA COUNTY IN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...
NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...
NORTHWESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA...
SOUTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.
* AT 434 PM EDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2 INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE FALLEN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 1.5 INCHES
ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING OR
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...RADAR.
IMPACT...FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, URBAN
AREAS, HIGHWAYS, STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS
OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW-LYING AREAS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
CHARLESTON, NITRO, MADISON, JEFFERSON, SOUTH CHARLESTON, ST.
ALBANS, DUNBAR, SISSONVILLE, MONTGOMERY, CHESAPEAKE, MARMET,
BELLE, CEDAR GROVE, POCA, EAST BANK, GLASGOW, SMITHERS, GAULEY
BRIDGE, PRATT AND COAL FORK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
REPORT FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL
FREE, 800 401 9535, WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3837 8205 3839 8205 3858 8150 3832 8124
3826 8122 3825 8119 3823 8119 3823 8115
3816 8109 3792 8177 3835 8212
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
JLB
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