PARKERSBURG - A rainy week led to a flash flood watch that was in effect until 4 a.m. today.

Thad Truitt, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in South Charleston, said the watch means conditions are favorable for a flood and people living near streams need to watch for flooding and be prepared to evacuate if waters continue to rise.

Between 4 a.m. Wednesday and 4 a.m. Thursday a few areas reported almost an inch of rain, Truitt said.

The heaviest rainfall was in Sandyville in Jackson County where an observer recorded .95 inch of rain in a 24-hour period. In Grantsville, .68 inch of rain was observed and .55 of an inch in Ripley.

An observer in Parkersburg reported .26 inch of rain fell during this time, Truitt said.

Other rainfall totals were Elizabeth, .15; Spencer, .22; Harrisville, .49; Newport, .49; and Marietta, .30 inch.

Truitt said between 4 a.m. Tuesday and 4 a.m. Wednesday, .90 inch of rain fell in Spencer compared to .09 in Parkersburg. All other areas reporting recorded less than .20 inch of rainfall.

Heavy rainfall was reported in the Rockport area late Wednesday. Ed Hupp, director of emergency services in Wood County, said water was reported in three houses in the Limestone Drive area of Rockport.

"We had one house with water in the basement and one with water in the garage," he said.

Hupp said a third house, a modular home, was reported to have had structural damage. He said the damage was mostly cosmetic because the water washed away a brick facade of the home's underpinning.

"It seems like we had little rain in the Rockport area, but it was all dumped on Limestone Hill," he said. "There was also some road damage and the DOH was out there to repair it."