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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

718 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR YANCEY

COUNTY...



AT 715 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SLOWLY 

WEAKENING AS THEY DRIFTED TO THE NORTH AND EAST OVER SOUTHERN YANCEY 

COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AS MUCH AS 5 TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 

FALLEN ACROSS THE FLOOD WARNING AREA...IN AN AREA TRIANGLED BY MOUNT 

MITCHELL STATE PARK...CELO AND BUSICK.



COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT A SIGNIFICANT RISE ON THE SOUTH TOE RIVER 

SINCE MID AFTERNOON...BUT WAS STILL WELL WITHIN BANKS. AN AUTOMATED 

RIVER GAGE AT CELO DEMONSTRATED AN UPWARD SPIKE AS THE FIRST OF THE 

HEAVY RAIN AND ASSOCIATED RUNOFF REACHED THE GAGING LOCATION. SOME 

CAMPGROUNDS MAY BEGIN TO BE AFFECTED BY RUNOFF ON SOME OF THE 

NARROWER STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE REGION. THE FLOOD WARNING WILL 

CONTINUE UNTIL 8 PM...AND MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED IF FLOOD REPORTS 

START COMING IN TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OR COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT.



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.



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BURRUS

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