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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1139 PM EDT WED JUL 30 2025
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL KANAWHA COUNTY IN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 245 AM EDT.
* AT 1139 PM EDT, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING FLOODING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 0.5
INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING
OR EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. KANAWHA COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORTED UP TO THREE FEET OF WATER ACROSS NEW HOPE ROAD NEAR UPPER
PINCH ROAD. WATER WAS ALSO GOING INTO HOUSES AND TRAILERS IN THAT
AREA, AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS ON THE WAY THERE FOR WATER
RESCUES.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED.
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...
ELKVIEW AND PINCH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3853 8152 3854 8142 3841 8137 3838 8148
3842 8152
FLASH FLOOD...OBSERVED
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