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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1235 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 AM EDT FOR CATAWBA 

COUNTY...



AT 1230 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY 

RAINFALL HAD ENDED FOR THE MOST PART ACROSS THE COUNTY. HOWEVER... 

COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT THAT SEVERAL ROADS IN HICKORY ARE CLOSED DUE 

TO HIGH WATER. IN ADDITION...ALTHOUGH FLOODING HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED 

ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS THE COUNTY...RUNOFF FROM THE 3 TO 5 

INCHES OF RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY EVENING 

IS LIKELY RESULTING IN FLOODING ALONG SUCH STREAMS AS CLARK AND 

HILDEBRAN CREEKS...AND HENRY FORK AND BARGER BRANCH.     



DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS

SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT.

CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND STORM DRAINS.



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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