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WGUS72 KGSP 110130

FFSGSP

NCC097-159-110200-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

930 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN  

IREDELL AND ROWAN COUNTIES...



COUNTY OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS REPORT SOME FLOODING HAS 

OCCURRED THIS EVENING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. URBAN FLOODING 

CONTINUES IN THE CITY OF MOORESVILLE...WITH 1 TO 2 FEET OF WATER 

COVERING SOME STREETS ACROSS THE CITY. WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE 

COVERING THE ROAD AT WILLIAMSTON ROAD AND ALCOVE ROAD. IN ROWAN 

COUNTY...FOURTH CREEK HAS OVERFLOWED ITS BANKS AND IS COVERING  

PORTIONS OF FOSTER ROAD AND COOL SPRINGS ROAD. OTHER SMALL CREEKS 

AND STREAMS MAY BE FLOODED AS WELL...INCLUDING BEAVERDAM CREEK... 

CODDLE CREEK...DYE CREEK...AND SMALLER TRIBUTARIES. 



ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED FOR THE MOST PART ACROSS THE 

WARNED AREA...LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA 

THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING...AND FLOOD WATERS MAY BE SLOW 

TO ABATE.     



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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