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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

623 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR MCDOWELL AND 

EASTERN BUNCOMBE COUNTIES...



AT 620 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

CONTINUING OVER THE WARNING AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN...HOWEVER...HAD 

SHIFTED INTO CENTRAL AND EASTERN MCDOWELL COUNTY. LIGHT TO MODERATE 

RAIN WAS FALLING FROM EASTERN BUNCOMBE COUNTY INTO WESTERN MCDOWELL 

COUNTY. RADAR TRENDS SUGGEST THAT RAINFALL WILL LINGER OVER THE 

WARNING AREA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.



IN MCDOWELL COUNTY...URBAN FLOODING WAS UNDERWAY IN OLD FORT. 

OFFICIALS REPORT MILL CREEK STILL WITHIN BANKS BUT RISING. FLOODING 

HAD ALSO DEVELOPED IN GREENLEE...THOUGH OFFICIALS COULD NOT VERIFY 

WHETHER IT WAS DUE TO OVERFLOWING DRAINAGE DITCHES OR FROM EXCESS 

WATER FROM EITHER THE CATAWBA RIVER OR JAKES CREEK. PISGAH FOREST 

CAMPERS IN THE VICINITY OF CURTIS CREEK SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS 

FREQUENTLY IN CASE FLOODING APPEARS IMMINENT.



NO FLOODING HAD YET BEEN REPORTED TO OFFICIALS IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY 

FROM LOCATIONS FROM BLACK MOUNTAIN TO THE MCDOWELL COUNTY LINE. 

HOWEVER...FLOODING IS STILL POSSIBLE IN A FEW LOCATIONS AS HEAVY 

RAIN WORKS ITS WAY THROUGH STREAM 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.



PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY CAMPERS...SHOULD MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND NOW...DO NOT DELAY. WATER MAY RISE TOO QUICKLY FOR YOU

TO GET OUT OF DANGER LATER.



TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR

REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN

GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG.



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BURRUS

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