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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

753 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL 

ROWAN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AS OF 745 PM EDT...



AT 750 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED ONLY A FEW PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN 

OVER NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTY. RAINFALL HAD ENDED...TEMPORARILY...IN 

SOUTH CENTRAL ROWAN COUNTY...WHERE NEARLY 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN 

CLOSED SEVERAL ROADS BETWEEN SHUPINGS MILL AND THE BORDER WITH 

CABARRUS COUNTY. RADAR ALSO INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG SHOWERS AND 

THUNDERSTORMS...ASSOCIATED WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...MOVING SOUTH TOWARD 

ROWAN COUNTY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 77.



SHUPINGS MILL...OLD BEATTY FORD...AND OLD CONCORD ROADS REMAINED 

CLOSED BECAUSE OF HIGH WATER. MANY OTHER ROADS IN SOUTH CENTRAL 

ROWAN COUNTY HAD AREAS WHERE WATER COVERED THE ROADWAY. JENNIE WOLF 

CREEK WAS STILL OUT OF ITS BANKS. WATER LEVELS WERE RECEDING.



THE WARNING HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...DUE TO ABSENCE OF ANY 

RAINFALL IN THE FLOOD WARNING AREA. HOWEVER...WARNINGS MAY BE

NEEDED ONCE AGAIN IF FLOODING REDEVELOPS OR WORSENS AS THE NEXT 

ROUND OF STORMS AFFECTS THE REGION THROUGH LATE 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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