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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

130 AM EST THU MAR 20 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS EXTENDED 

THE



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

  GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 530 AM EST



* AT 125 AM EST...FLASH FLOODING WAS ONGOING IN GREENVILLE COUNTY...

  WITH SOME FLOODING LIKELY IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY.  NUMEROUS SMALL

  STREAMS HAVE FLOODED...WITH ROADS AND URBAN FLOODING AS WELL.



* THE FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY BECOME MUCH WORSE AND MORE

  WIDESPREAD DURING THE NIGHT.  FLOODING IS LIKELY AROUND BEREA...

  INMAN...CAMPOBELL...REIDVILLE...ALONG GILDER CREEK FROM MAULDIN

  TO EAST OF SIMPSONVILLE...AND AROUND TAYLORS AND GREER.  IN DOWNTOWN

  GREENVILLE...THE REEDY RIVER WAS AT 9.2 FEET AT 125 AM.  SOME

  DATA INDICATES THAT WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN...THE RIVER COULD

  RISE TO 11 FEET OR MORE.  AT THAT LEVEL...NUMEROUS DOWNTOWN

  STREETS FLOOD...AND WATER ENTERS SOME BUILDINGS. FLOOD PRONE AREAS

  OF DOWNTOWN SPARTANBURG WILL ALSO FLOOD.



DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS

SUCH AS UNDERPASSES AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT.

CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND FLOODED STORM

DRAINS.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT

QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY

IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.



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JONES

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