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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

228 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN AVERY COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

  NORTHWESTERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

  SOUTHEASTERN YANCEY COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

  NORTHWESTERN MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA   

  CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 515 PM EDT



* AT 225 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND 

THUNDERSTORMS...OVER THE EASTERN FACING SLOPES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA 

MOUNTAINS. THE LINE WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST...AS STORMS 

MOVED SLOWLY NORTHEAST. THREE AREAS HAD RECEIVED THE HEAVIEST 

RAINFALL: NEAR THE CONVERGENCE OF THE BORDERS OF AVERY...CALDWELL 

AND MCDOWELL COUNTIES...AREAS BETWEEN MOUNT MITCHELL STATE PARK IN 

YANCEY COUNTY AND THE PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST IN WESTERN MCDOWELL 

COUNTY...AND IN CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY...JUST SOUTH OF TUCKASEGEE 

BUT ALONG THE TUCKASEGEE RIVER TO NEAR BEAR CREEK RESERVOIR. 



ANOTHER 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE MOVED 

EAST OF THE AREA. SIGNIFICANT RISES ON STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE LIKELY 

IN THE WARNING AREA...AND MANY CREEKS COULD EXCEED BANKFULL. 

STANDING WATER ON ROADS IS ALSO LIKELY. CAMPGROUNDS COULD BE 

FLOODED...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF MOUNT MITCHELL AND 

BUSICK...AS WELL AS IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY. 



DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. CAMPERS NEAR 

CREEKS AND STREAMS SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON WATER LEVELS AND BE 

PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING APPEARS IMMINENT.

$$

BURRUS

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