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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1007 PM EDT SAT MAY 3 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR CATAWBA AND 

IREDELL COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED AS OF 1000 PM EDT...



AT 10 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED 

SOUTH OF THE WARNING AREA. WATER ON ROADS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS 

WAS SLOWLY RECEDING. THERE MAY STILL BE ISOLATED AREAS WHERE WATER 

IS STILL POOLING BUT EVEN THESE CONDITIONS SHOULD SLOWLY IMPROVE 

OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.



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.



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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