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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1100 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2001



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR CHESTER 

COUNTY...



AT 1100 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NEARLY 

STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OVER 

SOUTHEASTERN CHESTER COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 4 INCHES OF 

RAIN HAVE FALLEN ALONG...AND JUST WEST OF...THE INTERSTATE 77 

CORRIDOR. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR SO OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE FROM 

BLACKSTOCK TO INTERSTATE 77 BEFORE THESE THUNDERSTORMS DISSIPATE. 



CHESTER COUNTY 911 REPORTS THAT STREET FLOODING HAS ALREADY OCCURRED 

IN CHESTER ON BELTLINE ROAD NEAR ROUTE 9. ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF 

ROADWAYS AND STREAMS AND CREEKS IS POSSIBLE FROM ROUTE 97 SOUTHWARD 

TO THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY BORDER.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS.

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