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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

717 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003



...HEAVY RAIN TO AFFECT EASTERN BUNCOMBE COUNTY AT TIMES THIS 

EVENING...



AT 715 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND 

THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME EASTERN BUNCOMBE COUNTY...ALMOST INTO 

MCDOWELL COUNTY. SOME OF THE RAINFALL OVER EASTERN BUNCOMBE COUNTY 

HAS BEEN TORRENTIAL THIS EVENING...WITH AREAS ANYWHERE FROM OTEEN AND 

SWANNANOA...EAST TO FAIRVIEW...BLACK MOUNTAIN AND MONTREAT RECEIVING 

AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN...OR A LITTLE MORE. THIS FIRST ROUND OF 

HEAVY RAIN RESULTED IN STRONG SURGES ON STREAMS...CREEKS AND 

RIVERS...AND SATURATED THE GROUND.



A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH HEAVY 

RAIN...WILL MOVE ACROSS BUNCOMBE COUNTY LATER THIS EVENING. WATER 

LEVELS ON STREAMS...CREEKS AND RIVERS WILL HAVE LITTLE TIME TO 

RECEDE BEFORE THE NEXT ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. 

DRAINAGE DITCHES WILL LIKELY OVERFLOW...ENHANCING THE CHANCE OF 

URBAN FLOODING. WARNINGS MAY BE NECESSARY LATER.



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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