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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1035 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR NORTHERN 

IREDELL COUNTY...



AT 1025 PM...THE IREDELL COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER REPORTED 

WIDESPREAD FLOODING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. SEVERAL 

ROADS WERE CLOSED. INCLUDED AMONG THOSE WERE CROSS COUNTRY ROAD AND 

HIGHWAY 115 JUST SOUTH OF THE WILKES COUNTY LINE.



THUNDERSTORMS WERE EXITING THE COUNTY TO THE EAST. HOWEVER... RUNOFF 

FROM THIS EVENINGS TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH LARGER 

STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS FOR A FEW MORE HOURS.



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.



DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS BRIDGES WHICH ARE UNDER WATER. ROADS AT THE ENDS

OF THE BRIDGE MAY WASH OUT OR WEAKEN...AND YOUR VEHICLE MAY FALL INTO

THE RAGING CURRENT. DO NOT RISK YOUR LIFE. BACK UP AND GO ANOTHER

WAY.



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