Pike-Buchanan flash floods of July 15, 1979

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Pike-Buchanan flash floods of July 15, 1979

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1979
Series: Natural disaster survey report

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United States. National Weather Service
NOAA Program & Office:

NWS (National Weather Service)
Description:

The event was a series of classic flash floods occurring from intense thunderstorms over a small area on the order of a 15-mile diameter circle in the steep mountainside country of Appalachia in extreme eastern Kentucky in the headwaters of the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. Three deaths were reported as direct results of the flash flood and damages may reach $13 million in Pike and Buchanan Counties.
Keywords:

Floods Observations
Series:

Natural disaster survey report
Format:

PDF
Document Type:

Miscellaneous
Place as Subject:

Pike County (Ky.) ; Buchanan County (Va.)
License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Rights Information:

CC0 Public Domain
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Library
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urn:sha256:e72e2a1a3f5308659ee7abe798468774466dd8a30169eafa9a5a4c2382ecec6c
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/56790/noaa_56790_DS1.pdf
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