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WGUS72 KGSP 090317

FFSGSP

NCC025-071-119-090715-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1115 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 230 AM EDT FOR GASTON - 

MECKLENBURG - AND CABARRUS COUNTIES IN THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT...



THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA.  

RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES...IN JUST ONE HOUR...INDICATE 1 TO 2 INCHES 

OF RAIN IN EASTERN MECKLENBURG AND CENTRAL CABARRUS COUNTIES.  THE 

MAXIMUM WAS 2.5 INCHES RIGHT AROUND HARRISBURG.  ACROSS GASTON 

COUNTY...AN INCH OR SO OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR WAS SHOWN.  THREE 

HOUR ESTIMATES ACROSS THE AREA WERE SIMILAR...WITH UP TO 3 INCHES 

SHOWN AROUND HARRISBURG.



OFFICIALS IN CABARRUS COUNTY HAD RECEIVED A REPORT OF FLOODING ON 

ROCKY RIVER ROAD...WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS SHOWN ON RADAR.



SOME OF THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD MOVED EAST OF CABARRUS COUNTY AT 1110 

PM.  RADAR SHOWED TWO STORMS MOVING ACROSS MECKLENBURG COUNTY...ONE 

NEAR THE AIRPORT...AND ANOTHER JUST ABOUT OVER THE CITY OF 

CHARLOTTE.  HEAVY RAIN WAS TAPERING OFF QUICKLY IN GASTON 

COUNTY...FOR THE TIME BEING.



DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS

SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT.

CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND STORM DRAINS.



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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JONES

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