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WGUS72 KGSP 230310

FFSGSP

NCC011-021-089-121-199-230500-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1008 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MITCHELL AND YANCEY COUNTIES EXPIRED 

AT 1000 PM EST...

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BUNCOMBE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1015 

PM EST...

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR AVERY COUNTY CONTINUES UNTIL 1145 PM 

EST...

...SOME HEAVY RAIN IN HENDERSON COUNTY...

...A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA OVERNIGHT...



FLASH FLOODING HAS OCCURRED TONIGHT ALONG HIGHWAY 197 IN BOTH YANCEY 

AND MITCHELL COUNTIES.  ALSO...FLOODING OCCURRED ALONG CRABTREE 

CREEK AT THE MITCHELL AND YANCEY COUNTY LINE.  STREAMS WERE REPORTED 

HIGH IN SOUTHERN AVERY COUNTY...AND SOME MAY HAVE FLOODED...BUT NO 

SPECIFIC REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.  THOUGH SOME STREAMS WERE 

REPORTED TO BE RECEDING...OTHERS REMAIN IN FLOOD LATE THIS EVENING.



HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER HENDERSON COUNTY THIS EVENING...AND THERE 

COULD BE SOME LOCAL FLOODING PROBLEMS THERE.



IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY...THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF FLOODING OF SEVERAL 

HIGHWAYS AND ROADS...SEVERAL MUD SLIDES HAVE BEEN 

REPORTED...INCLUDING A MAJOR ONE ALONG HIGHWAY NC63.  IN 

ASHEVILLE...SEVERAL WALLS WERE REPORTED TO HAVE COLLAPSED...TAKING 

DOWN SOME POWER LINES.



HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE MOUNTAINS FROM SLOW-MOVING OR STATIONARY 

THUNDERSTORMS MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING MILES DOWNSTREAM.



WHEN DRIVING ALONG ROADS WHERE THE TERRAIN IS STEEP OR ROCKY...REMAIN

ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ROCK OR MUD SLIDES DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN.



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JONES

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