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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
216 AM EDT SUN SEP 20 2026
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL ATHENS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO...
NORTHEASTERN VINTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO...
* UNTIL 630 AM EDT.
* AT 216 AM EDT, DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN
0.5 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 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...
ATHENS, NELSONVILLE, LAKE HOPE STATE PARK, CHAUNCEY, BUCHTEL,
AMESVILLE, THE PLAINS AND STROUD RUN STATE PARK.
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 3931 8230 3933 8264 3936 8264 3938 8263
3937 8252 3940 8251 3938 8229 3947 8228
3947 8217 3946 8206 3945 8184 3932 8185
3929 8185
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR AND GAUGE INDICATED
JP
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