FLOOD WARNING
Warning Issue Date: 905 PM EST TUE DEC 15 2009
...FLOOD WARNING EXTENDED UNTIL LATE THURSDAY NIGHT...THE FLOOD
WARNING CONTINUES FOR
THE APPOMATTOX RIVER AT MATTOAX
* UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT...OR UNTIL THE WARNING IS CANCELLED.
* AT 08:30 PM TUESDAY THE STAGE WAS 19.5 FEET
* MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 21.0 FEET
* FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL BEGIN TO RISE SLOWLY LATE
TONIGHT...AND IS EXPECTED TO REACH FLOOD STAGE ONCE AGAIN BY
THURSDAY MORNING. THE RIVER WILL CREST JUST ABOVE FLOOD
STAGE...OR AROUND 21.2 FEET...AROUND MIDDAY THURSDAY...THEN
GRADUALLY FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE BY LATE THURSDAY EVENING.
* AT 21.0 FEET...AGRICULTURAL AND PASTURE LAND FLOODED.
THIS RIVER LEVEL IS COMPARABLE TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF 23.0 FEET ON
OCT 11 2006.
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