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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

235 AM EDT TUE JUL 3 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 3 AM EDT FOR CALDWELL 

COUNTY...

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 AM EDT FOR RUTHERFORD 

COUNTY...



AT 230 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT RAINFALL RATES HAD 

DIMINISHED CONSIDERABLY OVER RUTHERFORD AND CALDWELL COUNTIES. 

HOWEVER...MODERATE RAIN WAS STILL FALLING OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL 

RUTHERFORD COUNTY...AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING BACK INTO CALDWELL 

COUNTY.



EVEN WITHOUT ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN...STREAMS AND CREAKS WILL 

CONTINUE TO RISE IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF 

HOURS...AND AREAS OF URBAN FLOODING WILL ALSO CONTINUE IN THIS AREA. 

THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED AS MUCH AS 5 FEET OF 

WATER IN PARTS OF SPINDALE AS OF 2 AM...WITH SEVERAL OTHER REPORTS 

OF FLOODING THROUGH THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTY. 



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. EVEN MODERN SPORT UTILITY 

VEHICLES CAN BE SWEPT AWAY BY A FEW FEET OF RAPIDLY MOVING WATER.



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