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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

855 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  AVERY COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 1145 PM EST



* AT 845 PM...THE AVERY COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER REPORTED THAT 

SEVERAL CREEKS...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE 

COUNTY...WERE NEAR BANKFULL.  RADAR SHOWED RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS 

THE COUNTY...AND SOME HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED.



* SOME OF THE CREEKS AND RIVERS IN AVERY COUNTY WILL RISE ABOVE 

BANKFULL TONIGHT...POSSIBLY FLOODING ROADS.



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.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT

QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY

IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



$$

JONES

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