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WGUS72 KGSP 200056

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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

853 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2005



NCC023-200215-

BURKE NC-

853 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2005



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR BURKE

COUNTY...



AT 847 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED 

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER BURKE COUNTY...ALTHOUGH

NEITHER THE COVERAGE OR INTENSITY OF THE RAINFALL WAS AS GREAT AS 

EARLIER. IT WILL TAKE A WHILE FOR ALL SHOWERS TO END...SO MANY 

LOCATIONS MAY STILL SEE A HALF INCH OF RAIN OR SO BEFORE RAINFALL 

ENDS FOR GOOD.



A COUPLE OF ROADS WERE CLOSED AT THE HEIGHT OF THE HEAVY 

RAINFALL...DUE TO CREEKS OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS ONTO COUNTY ROADS. 

GOLF COURSE ROAD IN MORGANTON WAS CLOSED...AS WAS KIRKSEY DRIVE.



WITH RAINFALL INTENSITY DIMINISHING...WATER LEVELS SHOULD CONTINUE 

TO RECEDE THROUGH LATE EVENING. 



LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO VALDESE...

MORGANTON...ICARD AND CONNELLY SPRINGS.



LAT...LON 3567 8183 3557 8173 3555 8154 3570 8137

      3585 8160 3594 8192 3579 8194



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