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WGUS72 KILM 032249

FFSILM

NCZ087-096-SCZ024-032-033-032330-



FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC

634 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2001



...THE FLOOD WARNINGS FOR BLADEN...ROBESON...DILLON...FLORENCE AND 

MARION COUNTIES HAVE EXPIRED...



AT 630 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED MORE 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST WEST OF FLORENCE COUNTY. 

THESE STORMS WERE SLOWLY WEAKENING AS THEY DRIFTED TO THE EAST...BUT 

MAY STILL DUMP ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN...MAINLY SOUTHWEST OF 

FLORENCE.



ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE AREA...MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 

CONTINUING TO WEAKEN. THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL SERIOUS FLOODING HAS 

ENDED AND SO THE FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.



MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION AND BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR WATER 

WHICH HAS COLLECTED ALONG STRETCHES OF LOW LYING ROADS.



DO NOT CROSS AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.  



SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY COME TO AN END THROUGH 

MIDNIGHT. STILL RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR ARE 

POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS.



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