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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
211 AM EDT FRI AUG 7 2026
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 615 AM EDT.
* AT 211 AM EDT, DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS AND UPSTREAM OF THE
WARNED AREA. UP TO 2.5 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.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...RADAR AND AUTOMATED GAUGES.
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...
COTTAGEVILLE.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 77 IN WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 141
AND 143.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
BULLFROG RUN, JOHNS RUN, LEFT FORK SANDY CREEK, COW RUN, CROOKED
FORK, OHIO RIVER, SPRING CREEK, SANDY CREEK AND MILL CREEK.
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 3891 8185 3892 8180 3892 8176 3887 8170
3885 8176 3884 8178 3886 8181 3889 8186
3890 8185
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR AND GAUGE INDICATED
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