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Flash Flood — Boone, West Virginia
July 25, 2010 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
The repetitive showers and thunderstorms during the late afternoon into the early evening caused small stream to flood roads. The cooperative observer at Madison had a 24 hour rain total of 3.03 inches. Amounts of 2 to 2.5 inches likely fell in 3 hours. ||Along the flood swollen stream called Price Branch, a 41 year old retired miner was clearing debris and brush from a private culvert. The water came up fast, and he went in around 1800E. A neighbor grabbed his hand and tried to keep him from getting sucked into the culvert drain pipe. The effort failed. Even the neighbor had to be rescued by 4 to 5 others. The victim's body was found a short time later in the Little Coal River near Danville.
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.