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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1014 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR UNION 

COUNTIES...

...FLOODING CONTINUES IN CABARRUS COUNTY...



DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE MODERATE RAIN FALLING ACROSS 

ACROSS UNION AND CABARRUS COUNTIES. RAINFALL RATES WERE RANGING 

BETWEEN ONE HALF TO ONE INCH AN HOUR.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS MAINLY 

ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 601 NORTH OF MARSHVILLE INTO MIDLAND AND 

THE MOUNT PLEASANT AREAS IN CABARRUS COUNTY. STREAMS WILL CONTINUE 

TO RUN HIGH AND SOME ROADS WILL REMAIN FLOODED FOR THE NEXT FEW 

HOURS AS MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA.   



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN OR NEAR ANY SMALL

CREEK TONIGHT...AND AVOID ROUTES THAT YOU KNOW ARE FLOOD PRONE.



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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