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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

830 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR BUNCOMBE COUNTY

HAS EXPIRED AS OF 830 PM EDT...



AT 830 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING 

OUT OF EASTERN TENNESSEE AND FAR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS 

ARE EXPECTED TO SLOWLY WEAKEN AS THEY APPROACH THE SOUTHERN 

MOUNTAINS AND THE FOOTHILLS...AND COULD BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY 

RAIN TO BUNCOMBE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL LATER THIS EVENING 

COULD RESULT IN ADDITIONAL URBAN FLOODING...AND COULD CAUSE ONE OR 

TWO SMALL CREEKS TO COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS. IT IS POSSIBLE 

ADDITIONAL WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED 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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BURRUS

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