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WGUS72 KGSP 182138

FFSGSP

NCC119-179-182230-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

537 PM EDT WED JUN 18 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN 

MECKLENBURG AND WESTERN UNION COUNTIES...



AT 535 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY 

RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG AND WESTERN UNION COUNTIES.  THE 

PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST INTO CABARRUS COUNTY.  

RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATE THAT THE 

HEAVIEST RAIN HAS OCCURRED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHARLOTTE NEAR 

PINEVILLE.  THE GREATEST RAINFALL TOTALS IN UNION COUNTY HAVE BEEN 

WEST AND SOUTH OF MONROE.  RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES IN BOTH OF THESE 

AREAS INDICATE THAT FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN SINCE 

TUESDAY AFTERNOON.



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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