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WGUS72 KGSP 100023

FFSGSP

NCC023-035-100200-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

823 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR EASTERN BURKE 

AND WESTERN CATAWBA COUNTIES...



AT 8 PM...COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT SOME FLOODING HAS OCCURRED 

THIS EVENING ALONG SMALL STREAMS IN THE TOWN OF HILDEBRAN. A PORTION 

OF HIGHWAY 70 REQUIRED CLOSING IN THE VICINITY OF HILDEBRAN AND 

ICARD DUE TO FLOODING...BUT HAS SINCE REOPENED. SOME STREET FLOODING 

HAS ALSO OCCURRED IN THE TOWN OF LONGVIEW. ALTHOUGH THE FLOODING 

APPEARS TO HAVE ABATED FOR THE TIME BEING...NEW THUNDERSTORM 

DEVELOPMENT IS OCCURRING IN MCDOWELL COUNTY...AND THIS ACTIVITY MAY 

MOVE INTO THE COUNTY LATER THIS EVENING...CREATING A NEW THREAT OF 

FLOODING. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CONTINUED. 



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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