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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

807 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003



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

EXPIRED AS OF 800 PM EDT...



AT 8 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED MOST OF THE WARNING AREA FREE OF 

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH HAD WEAKENED AND DRIFTED TO THE 

NORTH AND EAST. A FEW ADDITIONAL SHOWERS...OR STORMS...COULD AFFECT 

THE REGION THROUGH THE REST OF THE EVENING...BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO 

BE AS POTENT AS THOSE THAT OCCURRED EARLIER.



RADAR ESTIMATES OF 5 TO 7 INCHES OF RAINFALL BLANKET THE WARNING 

AREA. AN OBSERVER IN CELO...TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF THE RAINFALL 

MAXIMUM AREA INDICATED BY RADAR...REPORTED 2.25 INCHES OF RAIN THIS 

AFTERNOON. AN AUTOMATED GAGE SOUTH OF THERE REPORTED 1.67 INCHES.

THE SOUTH TOE RIVER BETWEEN BUSICK AND CELO IS DESCRIBED AS ELEVATED 

BY COUNTY OFFICIALS BUT IS NOT NEAR BANKFULL AND NO REPORTS OF 

FLOODING CAME IN TO EITHER LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER 

SERVICE.



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.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.



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