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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

446 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN 

HAYWOOD COUNTY...



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REPEATEDLY TRACKED OVER NORTHERN 

HAYWOOD COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR 

ESTIMATES THAT SINCE 230 PM...TWO AND A HALF TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN 

HAS ACCUMULATED BETWEEN COVE CREEK TO THE TENNESSEE LINE. 



THROUGH 515 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT 

THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY...RESULTING IN AN ADDITIONAL HALF 

INCH TO INCH OF RAINFALL. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY PUSH 

AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS ABOVE BANKFULL. SOME CREEK BASINS THAT HAVE 

EXPERIENCED THE GREATEST RAINFALL ARE WILKINS...MARTIN...AND SPRING 

CREEKS.



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.



WHEN DRIVING ALONG ROADS WHERE THE TERRAIN IS STEEP OR ROCKY...REMAIN

ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ROCK OR MUD SLIDES DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN.



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