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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1047 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR IREDELL

COUNTY...



AT 1045 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED JUST SCATTERED STORMS OVER IREDELL 

COUNTY. THE BATCH OF HEAVY RAIN THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING JUST NORTH 

OF STATESVILLE HAD DISSIPATED...BUT NOT BEFORE PRODUCING BETWEEN 3 

AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN...MAINLY IN THE VICINITY OF FORT DOBBS. THE 

HEAVIEST RAIN AT 1045 PM WAS IN THE UNION GROVE AREA OF NORTHEAST 

IREDELL COUNTY. ANOTHER NEARLY STATIONARY CELL WAS IN THE VICINITY 

OF MOORESVILLE.



NO FLOODING HAD YET BEEN REPORTED TO COUNTY OFFICIALS OR THE 

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HOWEVER...SIGNIFICANT RISES ON 

FOURTH...FIFTH AND GREGORY CREEKS SHOULD OCCUR...AND RISES ON 

STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD OCCUR IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF IREDELL 

COUNTY AS THE EXCESS WATER WORKS ITS WAY THROUGH COUNTY 

CREEK BASINS.



IT IS POSSIBLE THE WARNING COULD BE CANCELLED EARLY IF ALL OF THE 

SHOWERS AND STORMS DISSIPATE WITH NO REPORTS OF FLOODING.



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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