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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

519 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HAYWOOD COUNTY CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM...



LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON...WEATHER RADAR AT GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG WAS 

SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF HAYWOOD COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST 

RAIN AND STRONGEST STORMS WERE DRIFTING TO THE EAST...INTO BUNCOMBE 

AND MADISON COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AS MUCH AS 4 TO 5 INCHES 

OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN 

HAYWOOD COUNTY...WITH LESS RAINFALL IN THE EXTREME NORTHWEST 

PART OF THE COUNTY NEAR THE TENNESSEE LINE.



COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT FINES CREEK FLOODED 

SHORTLY BEFORE 5 PM...FLOODING PART OF FINES CREEK ROAD AND HIGHWAY 

209. STREAMS AND CREEKS HAD RISEN SHARPLY IN THE TOWN OF 

WAYNESVILLE...BUT WERE STILL WITHIN THEIR BANKS. ALTHOUGH RAINFALL

HAS LESSENED IN INTENSITY...THERE IS STILL THE POTENTIAL FOR 

ADDITIONAL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING...EVEN SOME 

TIME AFTER RAIN ENDS.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. 

VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER 

GROUND. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES CAN BE SWEPT AWAY BY A FEW

FEET OF WATER.



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