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WGUS72 KRAH 100649

FFSRAH

NCC123-151-100830-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC

247 AM EDT SUN AUG 10 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR RANDOLPH AND 

MONTGOMERY COUNTIES THROUGH 500 AM...



AT 245 AM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED

FROM JUST EAST OF BADIN LAKE EAST TO NEAR SEAGROVE AND COLERIDGE...

ACROSS NORTHERN MONTGOMERY AND INTO SOUTHEAST RANDOLPH COUNTIES. 

RAINFALL HAS ALREADY TOTALED FROM 3 TO AS MUCH AS 6 INCHES FROM NEAR 

TROY TO NEAR ASHEBORO. 



COUNTY OFFICIALS AND TRIAD SKYWARN SPOTTERS INDICATED AT 240 AM... 

THAT FLASH FLOODING HAD WASHED AWAY THE PISGAH COVERED BRIDGE IN 

SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY... JUST WEST OF SEAGROVE. MANY ROADS WERE 

FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE. THE HARDEST HIT LOCATIONS WERE IN SOUTH 

CENTRAL RANDOLPH COUNTY IN THE LITTLE RIVER BASIN. 



AREAS EXPERIENCING SEVERE FLOODING INCLUDED... HIGH PINES CHURCH 

ROAD... PANTHER MOUNTAIN TO LANIER ROAD... LANIER ROAD TO PISGAH 

ROAD... BERNIE ROAD TO HIGHWAY 134. THERE WERE SEVERAL BRIDGES UNDER 

WATER. 



THE LITTLE RIVER WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE MAJOR FLOODING DUE THE 

EXPECTED RUNOFF FROM THIS BASIN. THE AREAS AFFECTED WILL BE ALONG

THE LITTLE RIVER FROM PISGAH COVERED BRIDGE ROAD... NEAR 220 BYPASS 

IN RANDOLPH COUNTY... DOWNSTREAM INTO MONTGOMERY COUNTY AROUND TROY. 



DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH ANY WATER. FLASH FLOODING IS 

OCCURRING SO ACT QUICKLY TO MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD 

WATERS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO 

RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  

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