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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
538 PM EDT TUE JUL 21 2026
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...
BARBOUR COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA...
NORTHEASTERN UPSHUR COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA...
DODDRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...
HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...
NORTHERN LEWIS COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...
TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...
SOUTHEASTERN TYLER COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...
NORTHEASTERN RITCHIE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 945 PM EDT.
* AT 538 PM EDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN 0.5 AND 1.5 INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE FALLEN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE
POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING OR EXPECTED
TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
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...
CLARKSBURG, BUCKHANNON, GRAFTON, WESTON, PHILIPPI, AUDRA STATE
PARK, BRIDGEPORT, SHINNSTON, BELINGTON, STONEWOOD, NUTTER FORT,
SALEM, LUMBERPORT, WEST UNION, ANMOORE, JACKSON MILL, ENTERPRISE,
WEST MILFORD, JUNIOR AND LOST CREEK.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 79 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 99 AND 129. ROUTE 33 NEAR MILE
MARKER 1...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 6 AND 7...AND NEAR MILE MARKER
15...AND NEAR MILE MARKER 17. ROUTE 50 IN WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 44 AND 82.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.
REPORT FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE,
800 401 9535, WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3914 8097 3933 8090 3947 8067 3948 8068
3943 8054 3947 8049 3944 8028 3939 8020
3941 8011 3939 8009 3945 7994 3944 7989
3930 7990 3924 7981 3913 7984 3911 7982
3909 7985 3897 7990 3896 8000 3906 8080
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
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