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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY

720 AM CST SUN MAR 12 2006



INC051-125-129-147-163-173-KYC059-101-225-121400-

VANDERBURGH IN-PIKE IN-GIBSON IN-WARRICK IN-SPENCER IN-POSEY IN-

HENDERSON KY-DAVIESS KY-UNION KY-

720 AM CST SUN MAR 12 2006



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CST(900 AM

EST) FOR UNION...DAVIESS...HENDERSON...POSEY...SPENCER...WARRICK...

GIBSON...PIKE AND VANDERBURGH COUNTIES...



THE HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT HAVE MOVED SOUTH OF THE WARNED AREA...WITH 

LINGERING LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL EXPECTED TO PERSIST UNTIL 8 AM. 

SINCE THE HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...THIS FLASH FLOOD 

WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 AM.



ROAD CLOSURE REPORTS RELATED TO HIGH WATER WERE RECIEVED FROM THE 

FOLLOWING SHERIFFS OFFICES TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN 

PADUCAH BETWEEN 530 AM AND 7 AM THIS SUNDAY MORNING.



IN GIBSON COUNTY INDIANA...STATE ROAD 64 ON THE PIKE...GIBSON COUNTY 

LINE WAS CLOSED. STATE ROUTE 64 BETWEEN HIGHWAY 65 AND 41 WAS 

CLOSED. MAIN STREET IN PRINCETON INDIANA WAS UNDER TWO FEET OF 

WATER...WITH WATER IN ONE HOUSE. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE DID STATE THAT 

THERE WAS CONCERN THAT A ROAD BRIDGE THAT GOES FROM LYLE 

STATION...COUNTY ROAD 500...TO STATE ROUTE 64 MAY FAIL TO DO DEBRIS 

PILING UP FROM THE HIGH WATER.



IN PIKE COUNTY INDIANA...WATER WAS COVERING STATE ROUTE 56...1 MILE 

WEST OF PETERSBURG AND STATE ROUTE 257 ALONG THE DAVIESS...PIKE 

COUNTY LINE. SEVERAL CITY STREETS IN PETERSBURG WERE FLOODED...AS 

WELL AS NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS.



IN POSEY COUNTY INDIANA...NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS WERE FLOODED. 

HIGHWAY 66...WEST OF WADESVILLE...IS PROHIBITED TO SMALL VEHICLES.



IN SPENCER COUNTY INDIANA....NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS WERE FLOODED. 

HIGHWAY 231 WAS FLOODED AT SEVERAL POINTS. STATE ROUTE 62...EAST OF 

STATE ROUTE 245 WAS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. STATE ROUTE 66 WAS 

CLOSED IN SEVERAL PLACES DUE TO HIGH WATER. STATE ROUTE 161 AT 

HIGHWAY 60 AND 50 NORTH WAS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. 



IN VANDERBURGH COUNTY INDIANA...MANY CITY STREETS IN EVANSVILLE WERE 

CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER...WITH WATER RESCUES IN PROGRESS.



IN WARRICK COUNTY INDIANA...HEIM ROAD...WEST OF INDERRIEDEN 

ROAD...SOUTH OF MILLERSBURG...WAS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. DEGONIA 

ROAD BETWEEN MAURER AND TWO STORY ROADS WAS ALSO CLOSED DUE TO HIGH 

WATER.



NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED SO FAR IN 

DAVIESS...HENDERSON AND UNION COUNTY KENTUCKY.



SOME OF THE ROADS MAY OPEN LATER TODAY ACROSS THE WARNED 

AREA...HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MOVE BACK IN 

LATER TODAY AND INTO EARLY MONDAY. PERSONS LIVING IN OR NEAR AREAS 

FLOODED BY HEAVY RAIN SHOULD KEEP POSTED TO THE WEATHER AND SEEK 

HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOOD WATERS THREATEN AGAIN.



LAT...LON 3793 8699 3780 8683 3768 8684 3764 8721

      3771 8772 3755 8785 3756 8807 3756 8808

      3768 8814 3780 8802 3789 8806 3816 8793

      3829 8792 3829 8792 3829 8792 3854 8743

      3852 8708 3821 8708 3818 8680 3810 8678



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