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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

720 PM EDT SAT MAY 8 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 915 PM EDT



* AT 715 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN FALLING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF JACKSON COUNTY. RADAR 

ESTIMATES THAT SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN CULLOWHEE 

AND TUCKASEGEE. THE STORMS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HEAVY RAIN HAVE SHOWN 

LITTLE MOVEMENT...AND ANOTHER INCH OF TWO OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE.



* THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE TUCKASEGEE RIVER... 

CULLOWHEE CREEK AND TILLEY CREEK. SOME FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE 

ALONG STATE ROUTE 107.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS

IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR

CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID

CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.



LAT...LON 3527 8331 3519 8316 3523 8306 3534 8305

          3538 8322



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