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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1031 AM EDT TUE OCT 15 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1115 AM EDT FOR GREENVILLE

COUNTY...



MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER MOST OF GREENVILLE 

COUNTY...PARTICULARLY AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 85. AT 

1020 AM EDT...THE REEDY RIVER IN GREENVILLE WAS AT 8.13 FEET AND 

RISING. THIS IS JUST ABOVE THE FLOOD STAGE OF 8 FEET. AT THIS 

LEVEL...MINOR FLOODING OF CLEVELAND PARK WILL OCCUR.



NO OTHER REPORTS OF STREAM FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. 

HOWEVER...COUNTY AND CITY POLICE REPORT THAT STREAMS ARE GETTING 

HIGHER. AS MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THE 

COUNTY...ADDITIONAL STREAM FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP.



IF THE REEDY STAYS ABOVE FLOOD STAGE...THEN THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING 

FOR GREENVILLE COUNTY WILL NEED TO BE EXTENDED INTO THE EARLY 

AFTERNOON. 



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