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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

422 AM EDT THU JUN 19 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 AM EDT FOR NORTHERN 

ANDERSON...AND SOUTHEASTERN PICKENS COUNTIES...



AT 420 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED NO PRECIPITATION WITHIN THE WARNING 

AREA...BUT DID SHOW A DEVELOPING LINE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS FROM 

JUST NORTH OF CLEMSON...WEST AND SOUTH THROUGH 

WALHALLA...WESTMINSTER AND TOCCOA. THESE SHOWERS COULD SPREAD OVER 

THE FLOOD WARNING AREA LATER...EXACERBATING ONGOING FLOODING.



IN ANDERSON COUNTY...SEVERAL ROADS REMAINED CLOSED BY SWOLLEN 

CREEKS. IN PENDLETON...EAST QUEEN...SOUTH ELM...AND CHERRY STREETS 

WERE ALL CLOSED...AND WATER FROM CHERRY STREET HAD BACKED UP INTO 

THE WEBB CEMETERY. HAMLIN ROAD WAS ALSO CLOSED. BISHOP BRANCH CREEK 

HAD CLOSED REFUGE ROAD...AND PART OF HIGHWAY 178 WAS CLOSED NEAR 

MCMURPHY ROAD NEAR ITS INTERSECTION WITH BISHOP BRANCH.



FLOODING HAD ALSO STRETCHED TO NORTHEAST ANDERSON COUNTY. A LONG 

STRETCH OF HIGHWAY 81 WAS CLOSED NEAR POWDERSVILLE FROM LEE 

ROAD...TO WREN SCHOOL ROAD. WATSON ROAD OFF HIGHWAY 81 WAS CLOSED 

DUE TO FLOOD WATER...AND SLABTOWN ROAD WAS CLOSED NEAR HIGHWAY 88.



IN PICKENS COUNTY...SLOW IMPROVEMENT HAD BEEN NOTED BY COUNTY 

OFFICIALS. WATER LEVELS WERE SLOWLY RECEDING IN THE VICINITY OF POPE 

FIELD ROAD...AND A BRIDGE THAT WAS IN DANGER OF WASHING OUT HAD 

REPORTEDLY HELD.



WHILE IMPROVEMENT IN NORTHERN ANDERSON...AND SOUTHEAST 

PICKENS...COUNTIES SHOULD OCCUR THROUGH 515 AM...WATER LEVELS 

COULD EXPERIENCE A SPIKE UPWARD IF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS IN 

EASTERN OCONEE...AND EXTREME WESTERN PICKENS...COUNTIES SHIFT 

EAST AND SOUTHEAST INTO THE FLOOD WARNING AREAS.



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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BURRUS

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