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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
454 PM EDT SAT JUL 11 2026
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA...
CENTRAL MCDOWELL COUNTY IN SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.
* AT 454 PM EDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN IN MUCH OF MCDOWELL COUNTY AND IN NORTHERN BUCHANAN
COUNTY. BETWEEN 1.5 AND 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN. ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 0.5 TO 1.5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED
AREA. THERE WERE SEVERAL REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING, INCLUDING ALONG
THE TUG FORK IN MCDOWELL COUNTY, AND ALONG GUESSES FORK RD IN
HURLEY IN BUCHANAN COUNTY.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
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...
GARY, WAR, BRADSHAW, IAEGER, JOLO, AVONDALE, PANTHER, COALWOOD,
STACY, CUCUMBER, HURLEY, ROSEANN AND ELBERT.
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 3752 8192 3731 8145 3727 8143 3726 8150
3723 8151 3721 8156 3720 8168 3724 8172
3724 8174 3721 8176 3726 8181 3738 8220
3754 8197 3751 8194
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
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