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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

100 PM EST TUE DEC 24 2002



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

AND GREENVILLE COUNTIES...



THE HEAVY RAIN THAT BROUGHT CREEKS TO BANKFULL AND CAUSED MINOR 

FLOODING IN GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES HAS MOVED INTO THE 

CENTRAL CAROLINAS.  SOME LIGHT RAIN WILL OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME 

THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING BUT SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL TOTALS WILL 

NOT OCCUR IN THE UPSTATE.



WATER LEVELS ON BRUSHY CREEK IN GREENVILLE COUNTY AND OTHER STREAMS 

THROUGHOUT THE AREA WILL FALL SLOWLY DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE 

AFTERNOON.  THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG 

COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 200 PM EST.



EVEN THOUGH STREAM LEVELS ARE LOWERING... WATER COULD REMAIN ALONG 

ROADS AND OTHER LOW-LYING AREAS THAT DO NOT DRAIN RAPIDLY.  FOR THAT 

REASON... CAUTION IS URGED WHILE DRIVING EVEN THOUGH RAIN MIGHT NOT 

BE FALLING.



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