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WGUS72 KCHS 181311

FFSCHS

SCC013-181500-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC

908 AM EDT SUN MAY 18 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BEAUFORT COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO 

EXPIRE...



DESPITE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATES OF SOME 3 TO 6 

INCHES OF RAIN AROUND THE PORT ROYAL SOUND OF BEAUFORT COUNTY THIS 

MORNING...NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OF ROADS OR PROPERTY HAS BEEN 

OBSERVED. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO 

EXPIRE.



AT 905 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 

INDICATE NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VICINITY OF HILTON 

HEAD ISLAND...PARRIS ISLAND...PORT ROYAL...AND SAINT HELENA ISLAND.  

AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 11 AM 

IN THESE LOCATIONS.  THIS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...ESPECIALLY AT THE 

TIME OF HIGH TIDE THIS MORNING...MAY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER IN 

ROADWAYS AND IN LOW-LYING AREAS. 



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ST JEAN/NWS CHARLESTON SC

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