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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

430 AM EST THU MAR 20 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 AM EST FOR SPARTANBURG

AND GREENVILLE COUNTIES...



FLOODING CONTINUES AROUND GREENVILLE COUNTY...AND LIKELY AROUND 

SPARTANBURG COUNTY THIS MORNING.  SMALL STREAMS WERE FLOODING 

ROADS...AND ADDITIONAL RISES WILL CONTINUE FOR A WHILE THIS 

MORNING.  THE REEDY RIVER IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE WAS OVER 10 FEET 

AND STILL RISING.  AT 11 FEET...STREETS FLOOD IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA...AND 

WATER ENTERS SOME BUILDINGS.



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 STORM DRAINS.



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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