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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY

840 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2006



INC019-150230-

CLARK IN-

840 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2006



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR

CLARK COUNTY...

...FLOOD ALERT FOR SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY...



AT 840 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE STRONG 

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MAJOR FLASH FLOODING OVER JEFFERSON COUNTY. 



A NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED 6 TO 12 INCHES OF WATER OVER INTERSTATE 65 

BETWEEN THE 0 AND 2 MILE MARKER. LOCAL MEDIA REPORTED WATER OVER THE 

ROAD AT I 65 AT THE SELLERSBURG EXIT. ANOTHER NATIONAL WEATHER 

SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED WATER OVER SEVERAL DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF  

HIGHWAY 60 NEAR HAMBURG. A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED THAT PLUM RUN 

CREEK...IN HAMBURG...WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS. A HOME CLOSE TO THE CREEK 

HAD WATER IN IT. 



NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING ARE ACROSS THE COUNTY AND IN THE CITY 

OF JEFFERSONVILLE.  



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS 

WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. AVOID ALL 

UNNECESSARY DRIVING THIS EVENING...AND IF YOU MUST DRIVE TURN 

AROUND...DONT DROWN



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



THE RAIN WILL BEGIN TAPERING OFF BY 930 PM...BUT THE FLOODING WILL 

TAKE SEVERAL HOURS TO RECEDE.  



LAT...LON 3847 8550 3843 8563 3831 8567 3828 8573

      3829 8578 3836 8577 3840 8581 3841 8599

      3847 8599 3851 8587 3860 8578 3860 8550

      3857 8542



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