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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1035 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM EST FOR SPARTANBURG

AND GREENVILLE COUNTIES...



SOME FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN GREENVILLE COUNTY.  THE 

BEAVER DAM CREEK WAS REPORTED FLOODING IN THE TIGERVILLE LOCUST HILL 

AREA. THE STAGE ON THE BRUSHY CREEK IN EAST SIDE GREENVILLE WAS 

ABOVE FLOOD STAGE...AND FLOODING WAS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN THE 

DEL NORTE AREA...AND ON HUDSON ROAD...AND OTHER PARTS OF TAYLORS AND 

GREER.  THE REEDY RIVER IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE WAS NEARLY AT THE 

FLOOD STAGE OF 8 FEET...AND WAS RISING QUICKLY.  AT 8 

FEET...CLEVELAND PARK FLOODS.  MODERATE FLOODING BEGINS BETWEEN 10 

AND 11 FEET...AND IT IS TOO SOON TO KNOW WHETHER THE RIVER WILL RISE 

THAT HIGH.  IF IT DOES...FLOODING OF SOME BUILDINGS WILL OCCUR IN 

DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE.  FLOODING WILL OCCUR DOWNSTREAM ALONG THE 

GILDER CREEK...FROM MAULDIN TO EAST OF SIMPSONVILLE.  HORSPEN AND 

PETERS CREEKS OFTEN FLOOD IN THESE TYPES OF FLASH FLOODS.



IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY...OFFICIALS AT THE 911 CENTER HAD NOT RECEIVED 

REPORTS OF FLOODING YET.  HOWEVER...BASED ON RADAR 

ESTIMATES...FLOODING SHOULD BEGIN ALONG SMALL STREAMS FROM THE CITY 

NORTH AT ANY TIME.  SOME FLOOD PRONE AREAS INCLUDE 

INMAN...CAMPOBELLO...AND SOME LOW BRIDGES AROUND DUNCAN AND 

REIDVILLE.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN OR NEAR ANY SMALL

CREEK TONIGHT...AND AVOID ROUTES THAT YOU KNOW ARE FLOOD PRONE.



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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JONES

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