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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

944 AM EDT WED JUL 25 2001



...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL NOON FOR A SMALL PART OF UPSTATE 

SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA...



THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN GEORGIA...



STEPHENS...FRANKLIN...HART...ELBERT...



IN SOUTH CAROLINA...



OCONEE...PICKENS...ANDERSON...



COUNTY COMMUNICATION CENTERS IN THE WATCH AREA CONTINUE TO REPORT

HEAVY RAIN...BUT FLOODING WAS STILL NOT YET REPORTED. A COMBINATION

OF RADAR AND SATELLITE ESTIMATES...AND RAIN GAUGES IN THE AREA...

INDICATE THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS

HAVE FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF ELBERT...HART AND SOUTHERN ANDERSON

COUNTIES.



EAST OF THE WATCH AREA...LOCALIZED ONE INCH RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE

OBSERVED ACROSS ABBEVILLE...GREENWOOD...LAURENS AND GREENVILLE

COUNTIES. 



RADAR TRENDS INDICATE THAT OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE

THIS MORNING...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GREENVILLE TO 

ANDERSON TO HARTWELL. 



MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER  WATER PONDING ON ROADS 

THIS MORNING ACROSS WESTERN PARTS OF THE UPSTATE AND EXTREME 

NORTHEAST GEORGIA.  ANY FLOODING WILL MOST LIKELY OCCUR ALONG 

SMALL STREAMS...IN LOW AREAS...AND IN URBAN AREAS.



LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS.

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