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GAC119-257-SCC073-077-200945-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

400 AM EST THU MAR 20 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 AM EST FOR STEPHENS...

FRANKLIN...PICKENS AND SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTIES...



ALTHOUGH HEAVIER RAINS HAVE MOVED EAST OUT OF THE WARNED AREA... 

LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO FROM 

CARNESVILLE...TO SENECA AND OAKWAY...TO PICKENS AND EASLEY. SOME 

SMALL STREAMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO BE OUT OF THEIR BANKS ACROSS 

PORTIONS OF PICKENS COUNTY. OTHERWISE...FLOODING HAS BEEN RELATIVELY 

MINOR ACROSS THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...THE GROUND IS SATURATED AND 

MANY RIVERS AND STREAMS ARE NEAR BANKFULL ACROSS ALL OF THE WARNED  

AREA. EVEN MODERATE RAINFALL COULD CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING.  



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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