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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

432 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 730 PM EDT



* AT 430 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN IN 

NORTHEAST HAYWOOD COUNTY...AND ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAIN CLOSER TO 

WAYNESVILLE.  RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AS MUCH AS 4 TO 5 INCHES OF 

RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED THIS AFTERNOON.



* RADAR SHOWED THE STORMS MERGING OVER EASTERN HAYWOOD COUNTY...AND 

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOOD IS LIKELY TO OCCUR.  THE SHERIFF 

DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT STREAMS IN TOWN WERE NEAR BANKFULL.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



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