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WGUS72 KRAH 180303

FFSRAH

NCC081-180400-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC

1100 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL GUILFORD

COUNTY...



AT 1056 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER

CENTRAL GUILFORD COUNTY. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEVERAL 

WATER RESCUES ARE UNDERWAY IN GREENSBORO AND NUMEROUS ROADS ARE 

CLOSED. 



LOCATIONS THREATENED WITH FLASH FLOODING 

INCLUDE...SEDALIA...MCLEANSVILLE...AND GREENSBORO.



IN GREENSBORO...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS WEST GREENSBORO WILL 

CAUSE NORTH BUFFALO CREEK TO THREATEN NUMEROUS APARTMENTS IN THE 

ASHLEY CREEK AREA. LOCATIONS FROM MERRITT DRIVE TO HOLDEN 

ROAD...PINECROFT ROAD AND HIGHWAY 29 COULD ALSO EXPERIENCE FLOODING. 

FURTHER DOWNSTREAM WATER WILL RISE IN AND AROUND LATHAM PARK 

THREATENING SEVERAL HOMES ALONG LATHAM ROAD. ROADS ALONG THE CREEK 

FROM WESTOVER TERRACE TO ELM STREET COULD ALSO BECOME THREATENED BY 

FLOOD WATERS. 



HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTH GREENSBORO WILL CAUSE WATER TO RISE 

RAPIDLY ALONG BOTH SOUTH BUFFALO CREEK AND RYAN CREEK. FLOODING OF 

AREAS IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE CREEK CAN BE EXPECTED. PARKING 

LOTS OF SEVERAL BUSINESSES ALONG THE CREEK COULD FLOOD.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR

VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES

CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED.



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