"Paul C" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:48:45 GMT, (Paul C) wrote:
The Times reports this in its issue of June 4 1958 (rather than
1957).
It describes the water in the Valency rising 15 feet in 20
minutes,
after a cloudburst in the North Cornwall moors.
It is definitely 1958 - I have full online access to The Times
back
issues and the event is reported on page 10 of the 4 June 1958
edition
You are dead right. The description appears in British Rainfall
for 1958, yet no gauge in the district caught more than two inches
(50mm). However, there were no gauges in the Valency catchment
during that year, the nearest were at Bossiney, Camelford, and
Delabol, so it is possible that a highly localised fall occurred
over
the moors between the Camel and Bossiney catchments.
The June 1957 flood at Camelford also happened, of course.
I've alerted the Dundee database people.
Philip Eden