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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1210 AM EST SUN FEB 23 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR AVERY COUNTY HAS

EXPIRED AS OF 1145 PM EST...



NO ADDITIONAL FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED TO COUNTY OFFICIALS OR THE 

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND 

THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE BACK INTO THE TOE RIVER BASIN BY 1 AM. 

RAINFALL WITH THESE ADDITIONAL STORMS COULD EXCEED A QUARTER 

INCH...WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO SEND THE RIVER BACK OUT OF ITS 

BANKS. OTHER SHALLOW STREAMS AND CREEKS COULD SURPASS BANKFULL IF 

CELLS TRAIN OVER THE SAME AREAS...BUT CURRENT DATA SUGGEST JUST A 

COUPLE OF MORE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE REGION.



THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN

THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE

FLASH FLOOD THREAT. EVEN THOUGH STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE RECEDING...

SOME ROADWAYS STILL MAY BE COVERED WITH WATER. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED

TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN OR NEAR ANY SMALL

CREEK TONIGHT...AND AVOID ROUTES THAT YOU KNOW ARE FLOOD PRONE.



DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD

BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE

SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER.



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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