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WGUS72 KGSP 200346

FFSGSP

SCC007-077-200430-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1046 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM EST FOR ANDERSON AND

PICKENS COUNTIES...



SOME FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED AROUND 10 PM IN THE IVA AREA OF 

ANDERSON COUNTY. SOME ROADS WERE REPORTED FLOODED.  MODERATE RAIN 

WAS STILL FALLING ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF ANDERSON COUNTY...AND 

COVERED ALL OF PICKENS COUNTY. NO FLASH FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED 

TO THE PICKENS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE AS OF 10 PM.



ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHWEST OF THE AREA AT 1045 PM...AND 

COULD REQUIRE THE WARNING TO BE EXTENDED...OR REISSUED...LATER 

TONIGHT.



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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