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WGUS72 KGSP 140020

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NCC023-140115-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

819 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BURKE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 815 PM...



AT 815...RADAR SHOWED NO RAINFALL OVER BURKE COUNTY. COUNTY 

OFFICIALS REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS HAD WATER OVER THEM EARLIER...BUT 

CONDITIONS HAD GREATLY IMPROVED TOWARD THE END OF THE WARNING TIME.

THERE WAS ALSO SOME URBAN FLOODING IN MORGANTON. STREAMS AND CREEKS 

ACROSS THE COUNTY WERE ELEVATED.



RADAR DID SHOW A CLUSTER OF STORMS MOVING OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS. 

THESE STORMS WILL MOVE BACK OVER BURKE COUNTY AT SOME POINT THIS 

EVENING...WHICH COULD CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING...AND COULD CAUSE A 

FEW STREAMS OR CREEKS TO COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS.



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.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION OR 

CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.



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BURRUS

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