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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1130 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS EXTENDED 

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* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

  NORTHERN YORK COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 230 AM EDT



* AT 1125 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

CONTINUING IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY...SOUTH AND 

WEST ACROSS MOST OF NORTHERN YORK COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES WERE NOT AS

HIGH AS EARLIER IN THE EVENING...BUT WERE MORE THAN AMPLE TO 

CONTINUE ONGOING FLOODING...OR PERHAPS RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLOODING.



CHARLOTTE...ESPECIALLY DOWNTOWN AND SOUTHSIDE...WERE EXTREMELY HARD 

HIT BY MORE THAN 3 INCHES OF RAIN. MANY ROADS REMAINED 

IMPASSABLE...AND ADDITIONAL EVACUATIONS OF LOW LYING AREAS NEAR 

SUGAR CREEK IN THE VICINITY OF INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD WERE ONGOING. 

FLOODING COULD DEVELOP TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF CHARLOTTE...FROM 

MATTHEWS TO PINEVILLE...AS HEAVY RAIN SHIFTS SLOWLY SOUTH AND EAST.



FLOODING ALSO CONTINUES IN YORK COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY 

OF CLOVER. A CREEK HAD COME OUT OF ITS BANKS NEAR CLOVER...AND WAS 

FLOODING PART OF GREENLEAF ROAD. WEAK-ROOTED TREES HAD ALSO BEEN 

REPORTED DOWN IN THIS AREA AS THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS MOVED THROUGH 

THE REGION. ALSO...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ALONG HIGHWAYS 

557...5 AND 49...AFFECTING PARTS OF HAMMOND CHURCH AND RHEMA CHURCH 

ROADS.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY

ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER

LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.



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