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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

636 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR SOUTH 

CENTRAL ROWAN COUNTY...



AT 635 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS WEAKENING OVER SOUTHERN 

ROWAN COUNTY. RADAR ALSO SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING STEADILY 

SOUTHWARD ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 77 THAT WILL MOVE INTO ROWAN 

COUNTY LATER.



A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED OR COVERED BY WATER 

IN A SMALL AREA OF SOUTH CENTRAL ROWAN COUNTY...CENTERED ABOUT 5 

MILES SOUTH OF SHUPINGS MILL. COUNTY OFFICIALS CONFIRMED OLD BEATTY 

FORD AND OLD CONCORD ROADS HAVE BEEN CLOSED BECAUSE OF HIGH WATER. 

SHUPINGS MILL ROAD ALSO HAD A LOT OF WATER COVERING THE ROADWAY. 

JENNIE WOLF CREEK CAME OUT OF ITS BANKS AND FLOODED PART OF CARTER 

LOOP ROAD.



STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD RECEDE THROUGH MID EVENING AND THE WATER 

AFFECTING NUMEROUS ROADS NOW SHOULD GRADUALLY LOWER THROUGH MID 

EVENING. HOWEVER...WATER LEVELS COULD RISE RAPIDLY AGAIN...AS STORMS 

APPROACH THIS FLOOD AREA FROM THE NORTH LATER THIS EVENING.



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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BURRUS

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