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FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
440 AM CST FRI JAN 7 2005

THE FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM CST (NOON EST) THIS
MORNING...FOR THE FOLLOWING...

IN INDIANA:

GIBSON...VANDERBURGH AND WARRICK.

BETWEEN 400 AND 415 AM CST...NO REPORTS OF ADDITIONAL FLOODING WERE 
RECEIVED REGARDING THE PIGEON CREEK. HOWEVER...GIBSON COUNTY 
SHERIFFS OFFICE DID INDICATE THAT NO FLOODING WAS REPORTED AT THIS 
TIME ON THE PIGEON CREEK...WHERE IT MOVES THROUGH GIBSON COUNTY.

IN WARRICK COUNTY...SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT ROAD PROBLEMS 
PERSIST DUE TO WATER NEAR YANKEETOWN ROAD AND OLD HIGHWAY 66 IN THE 
SOUTHEAST PART OF THE COUNTY.

IN VANDERBURGH COUNTY...THE SHERIFFS OFFICE STILL INDICATED THAT 
FLOODING WAS NOTED ALONG FARM ROADS NEAR THE OHIO RIVER...OUTSIDE 
THE EVANSVILLE CITY LIMITS. MOST OF THE FLOODED ROADS WERE NOTED 
SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 164 IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE COUNTY AND IN LOW 
LAND AREAS IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY.

IN GIBSON COUNTY...THE SHERIFFS OFFICE STILL REPORTED SOME FLOODING 
OF SECONDARY ROADS ADJACENT TO THE WHITE AND PATOKA RIVERS. 

GIVEN RECENT RAINFALL AND SATURATED SOIL CONDITIONS...ANY FLOODING 
WILL BE SLOW TO SUBSIDE AND MAY PERSIST THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS.
IF YOUR TRAVEL TAKES YOU TO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN 
AROUND AND SEEK AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.   

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SMITH