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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

453 AM EDT WED MAY 7 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SWAIN COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 745 AM EDT



* AT 445 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED ONE HOUR RAINFALL  

  OF UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF ACROSS A GOOD PART OF SWAIN COUNTY.    

  IN THE PAST TWO HOURS...TWO INCHES OR MORE FELL.  THAT WOULD BE    

  ENOUGH RAIN IN A SHORT TIME TO CAUSE RAPID RISES AND FLASH         

  FLOODING ALONG STREAMS ALREADY IN OR NEAR FLOOD...FROM THE         

  EXCESSIVE RAINFALL YESTERDAY.



* SMALL STREAMS WILL FLOOD IN AND AROUND BRYSON CITY.  THE RIVER IS  

  LIKELY TO RISE QUICKLY TO NEAR FLOOD...AND AREAS OF THE CHEROKEE   

  RESERVATION WILL LIKELY HAVE FLOODING AGAIN THIS MORNING.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



$$

JONES

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