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WGUS72 KGSP 280702

FFSGSP

NCC025-059-097-159-280815-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

302 AM EDT TUE SEP 28 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 AM EDT FOR CABARRUS -

ROWAN - DAVIE AND IREDELL COUNTIES...



SEVERAL REPORTS OF FLOODED ROADS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM COUNTY 

OFFICIALS IN THE WESTERN PIEDMONT. IN CABARRUS COUNTY...SEVERAL 

ROADS WERE REPORTED TO BE FLOODED IN HARRISBURG...WITH SCATTERED 

REPORTS OF FLOODED ROADS ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTY. IN ROWAN COUNTY 

FLOODING WAS REPORTED ON HIGHWAY 52 IN ROCKWELL...ALONG FISHER ROAD 

IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY AND ON WETMOORE ROAD IN THE 

WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY. HOOD DEEP WATER WAS REPORTED AT THE 

CHINA GROVE EXIT OFF OF INTERSTATE 85. A MUD SLIDE WAS REPORTED TO 

BE BLOCKING ONE OF THE LANES OF INNES STREET IN SALISBURY. IN 

IREDELL COUNTY WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE COVERING OLD MOCKSVILLE ROAD 

JUST NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40...BUT AS OF 245 AM THE ROAD HAD NOT BEEN 

BLOCKED OFF.



THROUGH 3 AM...AN AUTOMATED RAIN GAGE AT BARBER IN ROWAN COUNTY HAD 

REPORTED 3.56 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE PAST 6 HOURS. A GAGE AT 

MOCKSVILLE REPORTED 3.09 INCHES AND A GAGE A STATESVILLE REPORTED 

2.79 INCHES.



A BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE BACK INTO THE AREA FROM 

THE SOUTH BETWEEN 3 AND 4 AM. AN ADDITIONAL HALF INCH TO AN INCH OF 

RAIN COULD FALL WITH THIS BAND OF RAIN. THIS WILL PROLONG THE 

EXISTING FLOODING AND POSSIBLY SEND MORE STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS.





LAT...LON 3526 8056 3540 8075 3551 8078 3551 8092

      3605 8100 3604 8058 3603 8045 3601 8042

      3584 8039 3583 8046 3584 8048 3578 8048

      3573 8045 3571 8035 3550 8030



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