Tuxedo, North Carolina

... A Flash Flood Warning remains in effect until 715 am EST for
Henderson County...

At 358 am EST... National Weather Service Doppler radar continued to
indicate moderate to heavy rain over Henderson County. Flooding conditions
were observed from two rain gauges near Hendersonville. The gauge at
Mud Creek reported 8.15 feet and the gauge at bat Fork creek
reported 7.6 feet.

From previous observations of flooding events... the Mud River will
begin to flood King Street and 5 points in southern Hendersonville
once it rises over 8 feet. The Bat Fork creek is also expected to be
producing flooding at Airport Road after it reaches 7.4 feet.

Additonal... yet slow rises in stream levels across Henderson County
are expected over the next few hours.

Locations in the warning include but are not limited to Mills River.

Lat... Lon 3546 8226 3544 8228 3538 8226 3529 8234
      3519 8236 3521 8240 3518 8243 3515 8256
      3529 8261 3542 8274 3546 8267 3543 8253
      3547 8240 3546 8237 3548 8237 3550 8231

229 am EST Wed Nov 11 2009

The Flood Warning continues for
the French Broad River at Blantyre.
* From this morning to Thursday evening... or until the warning is
cancelled.
* At 1:30 am Wednesday the stage was 12.9 feet.
* Flood stage is 16.0 feet.
* Forecast... rise above flood stage around sunrise this morning and continue to
rise to near 18.5 feet by this evening. The river will fall below
flood stage by late Thursday morning.
* At 18.0 feet... secondary roads along the river and farmland will be
flooded. River Road will be under water..

... Flash Flood Watch now in effect through this afternoon...

The Flash Flood Watch is now in effect for

* portions of northeast Georgia... western North Carolina and
upstate South Carolina... including the following areas... in
northeast Georgia... Elbert... Franklin... Habersham... Hart...
Rabun and Stephens. In western North Carolina... Avery...
Buncombe... eastern Polk... Graham... Haywood... Henderson...
Macon... Madison... Mitchell... northern Jackson... Polk
mountains... southern Jackson... Swain... Transylvania and
Yancey. In upstate South Carolina... Abbeville... Anderson...
greater Greenville... greater Oconee... greater Pickens...
Greenville mountains... Greenwood... Laurens... Oconee
mountains... Pickens mountains... Spartanburg and Union SC.

* Through this afternoon

* moisture associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida will
cause rain to persist across the watch area through the morning
hours... before beginning to taper off during the afternoon.
Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are likely
today... resulting in storm total accumulations of 3 to 5
inches... with locally higher amounts in excess of 6 inches
possible.

* Flooding is already in progress across portions of the North
Carolina mountains. The additional rainfall will exacerbate
existing flooding... and cause new flooding problems to develop.
Although the main effects will be along smaller streams and
urbanized areas... minor flooding is expected to develop later
today across upper portions of the French Broad River. In mountainous
or hilly terrain... rainfall amounts of 5 inches or more over a
large area lead to a significant increase in landslide threat on
an isolated to scattered basis.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

A Flash Flood Watch means that conditions may develop that lead
to flash flooding. Flash flooding is a very dangerous situation.

You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should flash flood warnings be issued.

... Lake Wind Advisory in effect from 7 am this morning to 7 PM
EST this evening...

The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg has issued
a lake Wind Advisory... which is in effect from 7 am this morning
to 7 PM EST this evening.

Sustained winds of 10 to 20 mph... with gusts as high as 35 mph will
develop across the northern foothills of North Carolina... as well
as the higher elevations of the North Carolina mountains today.
With the soil saturated due to the ongoing rainfall... a few trees
could uproot across this area. Isolated power outages may occur.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

A lake Wind Advisory is issued when wind gusts up to 35 mph are
expected.

... Record daily maximum rainfall set at Greenville-Spartanburg SC...

A record rainfall of 2.42 inches was set at the
Greenville-Spartanburg Airport on Tuesday. This breaks the old
record of 1.16 inches set on November 10 in 1987.