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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

142 AM EDT SUN AUG 17 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN CATAWBA COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...  

  SOUTHWEST IREDELL COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...



* UNTIL 445 AM EDT



* AT 136 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT NEARLY 4 

INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY AND 

EXTREME SOUTHWEST IREDELL COUNTY. THE STORMS THAT WERE CAUSING THE 

HEAVY RAIN WERE NEARLY STATIONARY AND ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN 

IS LIKELY IN THIS AREA.



* SMALL STREAMS ARE LIKELY TO FLOOD IN THIS AREA...AND MANY URBAN 

ROADS WILL BE COVERED BY DEEP PONDED WATER WHICH WILL MAKE THEM 

IMPASSABLE FOR A WHILE.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE 

BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



TO REPORT HIGH WATER...FLOODING...MUDSLIDES...LANDSLIDES OR OTHER

SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL

FREE NUMBER...1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.



LAT...LON 3550 8077 3551 8090 3552 8096 3554 8095

      3555 8096 3554 8106 3555 8110 3567 8093

      3559 8075



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