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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA

1100 AM EDT SAT OCT 7 2006



VAC011-029-071645-

APPOMATTOX VA-BUCKINGHAM VA-

1100 AM EDT SAT OCT 7 2006



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 PM EDT FOR

BUCKINGHAM AND APPOMATTOX COUNTIES...



AT 1100 AM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED HEAVY RAIN 

PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. IN BUCKINGHAM 

COUNTY...STATE ROUTES 657 AND 720 REMAIN CLOSED WITH WATER OVER THE 

ROADS. THE HIGHWAY EMBANKMENT ON STATE ROUTE 683 WAS DETERIORATING 

DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN. IN APPOMATTOX COUNTY...THE FOLLOWING STATE 

ROUTES WERE REPORTED TO BE UNDER WATER...611...638...616...654...AND 

655.



LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 

WINGINA...GOLD HILL...DILLWYN...CENTENARY...BUCKINGHAM...APPOMATTOX  

AND BENT CREEK



THE BAND OF HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO GRADUALLY WEAKEN...BUT 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND AND INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 

WARNED AREA. THIS WILL LIKELY AGGRAVATE ONGOING FLOODING...AND MAY 

CAUSE OTHER CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS IN THE AREA TO FLOOD.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE

BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



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.



LAT...LON 3721 7884 3739 7845 3768 7823 3774 7848

      3760 7879 3744 7899



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