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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

440 PM EDT SUN JUL 25 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 730 PM EDT



* AT 430 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED FLASH FLOODING 

FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR WAYNESVILLE. THE SPOTTER OBSERVED WATER 

LEVELS OF PLOTT...HYATT...RICHLAND...AND ALLEN CREEKS WERE AT OR 

SLIGHTLY ABOVE BANKFULL. 



AN ADDITIONAL INCH TO INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN IS EXPECTED TO FALL 

BETWEEN THE THE TOWNS OF BALSAM AND SUNBURST BY 6 PM. THIS 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ADD TO THE ALREADY EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM 

THIS STORM AND WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND 

STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. CREEKS IN THE 

AREA...ESPECIALLY PLOTT...RICHLAND AND ALLEN CREEKS ARE EXPECTED TO 

RISE RAPIDLY AND WILL LIKELY FLOOD ROADS AND BUILDINGS LOCATED NEAR 

THE CREEKS. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE LIKELY IN THE 

HAZELWOOD AREA ALONG BROWN DRIVE. 



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 3565 8319 3551 8316 3532 8294 3541 8277

      3568 8297



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