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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

927 PM EDT SAT MAY 3 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR IREDELL AND

CATAWBA COUNTIES...



AT 925 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THAT ONLY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND 

THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH 

CAROLINA. HOWEVER...RADAR ESTIMATES THAT AS MUCH AS 4 TO 5 INCHES OF 

RAIN HAS FALLEN IN NORTHERN CATAWBA COUNTY...WITH BETWEEN 2 AND 3 

INCHES AFFECTING SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTY BETWEEN STATESVILLE AND 

MOORESVILLE. OFFICIALS...AND SKYWARN SPOTTERS...FROM BOTH COUNTIES 

REPORT STANDING WATER ON SOME ROADS. 



INTERSTATE 40 IN CATAWBA COUNTY HAD BEEN CLOSED IN THREE SEPARATE 

PLACES BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 130 AND 138 EARLIER...BUT THESE CLOSURES 

WERE ONLY TEMPORARY. A FIREMAN JUST OUTSIDE CONOVER REPORTED A CREEK 

CAME OUT OF ITS BANKS OFF COUNTY HOME ROAD EARLIER THIS 

EVENING...AND WAS STILL FLOODING THE ROADWAY. COUNTY OFFICIALS WERE 

EN ROUTE TO THE CREEKSIDE MOBILE HOME PARK OFF SIPE ROAD TO 

INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBILITY THAT SOME OF THESE HOMES MAY BE 

THREATENED BY RISING WATER FROM A TRIBUTARY OF LYLE CREEK.



IN IREDELL COUNTY...THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF RAINFALL HAS BEEN IN THE 

VICINITY OF MOORESVILLE. UP TO A FOOT OF WATER HAS AFFECTED DOWNTOWN 

MOORESVILLE THIS EVENING. AN APARTMENT BUILDING IN MOORESVILLE WAS 

NEARLY COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY WATER...AND EVACUATIONS COULD BECOME 

NECESSARY THERE LATER. THERE IS STILL SOME CONFUSION AS TO THE 

SOURCE OF THE FLOODING...BE IT A SWOLLEN CREEK OR POOR DRAINAGE. 

THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS OF STANDING WATER WITH MINIMAL TRAFFIC 

DISRUPTION IN THE AREA JUST NORTH OF MOORESVILLE IN SHEPHERDS.



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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