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WGUS72 KGSP 051951

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NCC011-027-099-111-199-052115-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

351 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN 

AVERY-NORTHWESTERN CALDWELL-SOUTHEASTERN YANCEY-NORTHWESTERN 

MCDOWELL AND CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTIES...



AT 350 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STILL 

IN THE VICINITY OF THE WARNING AREAS...BUT THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD 

SHIFTED TO THE EAST. RAIN HAD ENDED IN SOUTHERN YANCEY AND NORTHWEST 

MCDOWELL COUNTY...ALTHOUGH ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS IN THE REGION 

COULD BRING MORE RAIN TO THOSE TWO COUNTIES.  MODERATE RAIN 

CONTINUED IN CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY. SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE STILL 

MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST.



RADAR ESTIMATED AS MUCH AS 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN 

NORTHWEST CALDWELL...AND SOUTHEAST AVERY COUNTY BETWEEN LINVILLE AND 

THE TOWN OF UPTON. A HAM RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED WILSONS CREEK WAS 

OUT OF ITS BANKS IN CALDWELL COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF MORTIMER. 

THIS CREEK RUNS VERY CLOSE TO HIGHWAY 90. A FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS EN 

ROUTE TO INVESTIGATE THIS FLOOD REPORT. SEVERAL CAMPGROUNDS ARE IN 

THE VICINITY OF WILSONS CREEK. DATA SUGGESTS SIGNIFICANT RISES MAY 

HAVE OCCURRED ON OTHER CREEKS IN THE REGION...INCLUDING BLAIRS 

CREEK...MULBERRY CREEK JOHNS RIVER AND SALLY CREEK.



TO THE SOUTHWEST...RAINFALL OF 3 TO 4 INCHES WAS ESTIMATED ALONG THE 

SOUTH TOE RIVER BETWEEN MOUNT MITCHELL AND BUSICK...SOUTH TO THE 

NORTHERN REACHES OF THE PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST IN NORTHWEST MCDOWELL 

COUNTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED BUCK CREEK AT BANKFULL IN MCDOWELL 

COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF LAKE TAHOMA. ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LIKELY 

BRING THE CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS.



RAINFALL OF CLOSE TO 4 INCHES WAS ESTIMATED IN CENTRAL JACKSON 

COUNTY...ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TUCKASEGEE. RISES CAN BE 

EXPECTED ON THE TUCKASEGEE RIVER AT TUCKASEGEE...AND FLOODING OF 

SMALLER TRIBUTARIES IS LIKELY.



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.



PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY CAMPERS...SHOULD MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND NOW...DO NOT DELAY. WATER MAY RISE TOO QUICKLY FOR YOU

TO GET OUT OF DANGER LATER.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA 

OUTLET...FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.



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BURRUS

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