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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1148 PM EDT WED SEP 1 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  MITCHELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

  MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 245 AM EDT



* AT 1138 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING FROM

  SPRUCE PINE TO ASHFORD...WHICH WERE NEARLY STATIONARY.



RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR. 

THESE RATES ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST 1 AM. 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. 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 3610 8209 3597 8206 3590 8196 3583 8195

      3576 8215 3590 8214 3594 8219 3600 8219

      3601 8223 3599 8225 3604 8230 3602 8233

      3607 8234 3609 8240 3614 8222



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