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Virginia Tech: Student Research Would Improve High-impact Flash Flood Warnings in Rural Virginia
March 10, 2026
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, March 10 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:

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Student research would improve high-impact flash flood warnings in rural Virginia

McKenzie Tate's work on expanding ground-based observation networks across Appalachia could improve rainfall estimates, strengthen warning systems, and help protect communities facing increasingly extreme precipitation events.

By Max Esterhuizen

It was winter 2009. . . .

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