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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

531 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 830 PM EDT



* AT 525 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY 

HEAVY   RAIN JUST NORTHEAST OF SYLVA IN NORTHERN JACKSON 

COUNTY...ALONG HIGHWAY 74 AND 23.



* SCOTT CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE OUT OF THEIR 

BANKS. THE COMMUNITIES OF FISHER CREEK...FOSTER...AND WILLITS WILL 

BE MOST PRONE TO FLOODING.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS 

AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. 



WHEN DRIVING ALONG ROADS WHERE THE TERRAIN IS STEEP OR ROCKY...REMAIN

ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ROCK OR MUD SLIDES DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN.



LAT...LON 3553 8313 3527 8294 3520 8327 3544 8339



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