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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA

339 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

UNTIL 530 PM EDT...



  WILKES COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA



AT 334 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 

WILKESBORO...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MORAVIAN FALLS...MOVING SOUTH 

AT 20 MPH.



RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLASH 

FLOODING ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN WILKES COUNTY THROUGH 

LATE THIS AFTERNOON.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY

CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.



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