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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1007 PM EDT WED SEP 1 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHERN BURKE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 100 AM EDT



* AT 1007 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR

  INDICATED LIKELY FLASH FLOODING FROM A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS

  NEAR JONAS RIDGE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF NEWLAND. THESE 

  THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY.



RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF NEARLY TWO INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR...AND ABOUT 

THREE INCHES OVER THE PREVIOUS TWO HOURS...WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING 

TO DEVELOP ALONG THE LINVILLE RIVER. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS 

STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING OF OTHER NEARBY CREEKS AND 

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

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT

QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY

IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



LAT...LON 3596 8185 3596 8181 3595 8179 3594 8178

      3593 8178 3589 8190 3592 8192 3597 8193

      3599 8189



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