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WGUS72 KGSP 292351

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NCC097-300045-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

752 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL

IREDELL COUNTY...



AT 750 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING 

OVER MOST OF IREDELL COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD FALLEN IN CENTRAL 

IREDELL...IN AREAS ALONG AND CLOSE TO INTERSTATE 40. SEVERE URBAN 

FLOODING DEVELOPED EARLIER AS A RESULT OF THE TORRENTIAL 

DOWNPOURS...BUT COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT CONDITIONS HAD GREATLY 

IMPROVED. OFFICIALS DID REPORT THAT DEPOT HILL ROAD WAS STILL CLOSED 

BECAUSE OF HIGH WATER. NO STREAM OR CREEK FLOODING HAD YET BEEN 

REPORTED.



THROUGH 845 PM...THERE IS STILL A CHANCE THAT SOME FLOODING OF 

SHALLOW STREAMS AND CREEKS COULD STILL OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE 

FOURTH AND FIFTH CREEKS BETWEEN ELMWOOD AND COOL SPRINGS. BE ALERT 

ALSO FOR RISES ON THE YADKIN RIVER AS RUNOFF FROM THE AFTERNOON 

STORMS FILTERS THROUGH COUNTY CREEK BASINS.



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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