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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

608 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR JACKSON

COUNTY...



A LARGE AND SLOWLY MOVING THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED EXCESSIVE 

RAINFALL IN NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY WAS WEAKENING RAPIDLY AT 605 

PM.  THE RAIN INTENSITY HAD LESSENED SIGNIFICANTLY... BUT LIGHT TO 

MODERATE RAIN PERSISTED... ESPECIALLY JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF SYLVA.



BETWEEN 520 AND 600 PM... VERY HEAVY RAIN FELL ON THE PLOTT BALSAMS 

NORTHEAST OF SYLVA.  NUMEROUS SMALL STREAMS FEEDING INTO SCOTT CREEK 

ON THE SOUTH SLOPES OF THE PLOTT BALSAMS PRODUCED THE THREAT OF 

FLASH FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 74 AND 23 NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF 

WILLITS... ADDIE... FOSTER... AND BETA AS WELL AS IN THE TOWN OF 

SYLVA.  AS OF 605 PM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAD RECEIVED NO 

REPORTS OF FLOODING.



THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL THE THREAT OF 

HIGH WATER LEVELS IN CREEKS... STREAMS... AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS 

HAS ENDED.



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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