BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING…CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
509 PM EDT THU SEP 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
HAYWOOD

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
CANTON…CRUSO…LAKE JUNALUSKA…MAGGIE VALLEY…WATERVILLE AND
WAYNESVILLE

AT 505 PM…WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE SHIELD OF MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAIN SHOWERS POISED TO MOVE OVER HAYWOOD COUNTY. A TRAINED WEATHER
SPOTTER REPORTED THE PIGEON RIVER WAS ALREADY OUT OF ITS BANKS
NEAR CLYDE FROM HEAVY RAIN EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. AS HEAVY RAINFALL
MOVES IN FROM THE WEST…FLOODING IN CLYDE WILL ONLY WORSEN AND
NUMEROUS OTHER STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY COME OUT OF THEIR
BANKS.

ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOODING WILL BE LOW AREAS AND SMALLER
TRIBUTARIES IN THE VICINITY OF THE PIGEON RIVER NEAR CANTON…AND IN
COVE CREEK NEAR THE JUNCTION OF THE PIGEON RIVER AND JONATHAN CREEK.
FLOODING IS LIKELY ALONG HYATT CREEK IN HAZELWOOD. MAGGIE VALLEY
WILL ALSO LIKELY OBSERVE AT LEAST MINOR FLOODING LATE TONIGHT.

RISES TO NEAR BANKFULL WILL LIKELY LEAD TO URBAN FLOODING IN
WAYNESVILLE. ELSEWHERE…NUMEROUS SHALLOW STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL
LIKELY COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS OVERNIGHT.

A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN REPORTED.
RIVER RISES WILL BE SLOW BUT STEADY. ALL INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD
TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IMMEDIATELY.