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WGUS72 KGSP 241546

FFSGSP

SCC045-083-241630-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1045 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR SPARTANBURG 

AND EASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTIES...



HEAVY RAIN PERSISTED OVER PORTIONS OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AT 1045 

AM.  THE RIVER GAGE ON BRUSHY CREEK IN THE DEL NORTE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 

GREENVILLE COUNTY INDICATES THAT THE STREAM IS OUT OF ITS BANKS.  

THE STAGE AT 1040 AM WAS 6.7 FEET.  WATER COVERS BOILING SPRINGS 

ROAD AT BRUSHY CREEK AND SOME BACK YARDS IN DEL NORTE CONTAIN WATER 

WHEN THE STAGE IS ABOVE 6.0 FEET.



AT 1045 AM... RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVY RAIN IN GREENVILLE AND 

SPARTANBURG COUNTIES WAS BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF JUST TO THE WEST OF 

GREENVILLE.  RAIN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON... BUT THE 

INTENSITY OF RAINFALL WILL DIMINISH IN GREENVILLE BEFORE NOON AND IN 

SPARTANBURG SHORTLY AFTER NOON.



DO NOT BECOME A FATALITY DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS...THE ROAD COULD

BE WASHED OUT FROM THE FLOW OF THE WATER...AND YOUR CAR COULD BE

SWEPT AWAY BY THE SWIFTLY MOVING WATER.



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