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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

955 AM EDT WED MAY 7 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 AM EDT FOR RABUN...

SWAIN...GRAHAM...MACON AND JACKSON COUNTIES...



AT 955 AM...WIDESPREAD RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA HAS TAPERED OFF TO 

SHOWERS. ANOTHER AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE 

FROM CENTRAL TENNESSEE TO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EXTREME 

NORTHEAST GEORGIA AROUND NOON. RAIN WILL LIKELY CONTINUE OVER THE 

AREA THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS...RESULTING IN AN ADDITIONAL 

INCH TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN TODAY. WITH A SATURATED GROUND AND 

STREAMS AND RIVERS AT OR NEAR BANKFULL...ADDITIONAL FLOODING AND 

MUDSLIDES ARE LIKELY. 



THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED INTO THE AFTERNOON 

HOURS IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.



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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