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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

808 PM EDT SUN JUL 6 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR MADISON

COUNTY...



AT 745 PM...COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT FLOODING CONTINUED... 

MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. LITTLE 

PINE CREEK WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS AND FLOODING SOME ADJACENT ROADWAYS. 

FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED ON SPRING CREEK...AND WATER FROM THIS 

CREEK WAS BEGINNING TO COVER PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 63. ALTHOUGH NO 

MAJOR HIGHWAYS OR ROADWAYS HAVE BEEN CLOSED AS OF 745 PM...SEVERAL 

SIDE ROADS HAVE BEEN CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING ALONG SMALL CREEKS.   



AT 757 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER BATCH 

OF MODERATE RAIN...WITH EMBEDDED AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN...MOVING INTO 

MADISON COUNTY. THIS COULD PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR MORE OF 

RAIN ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH 10 PM. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL... 

COMBINED WITH RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAIN WILL RESULT IN FURTHER RISES 

ON CREEKS AND STREAMS THAT ARE ALREADY IN FLOOD. NEW FLOODING COULD 

ALSO DEVELOP ALONG STREAMS SUCH AS LITTLE SANDYMUSH CREEK AND ITS 

TRIBUTARIES...AND BIG PINE CREEK.      



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. 



PEOPLE LIVING ON CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN 

PORTIONS OF MADISON COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY...AND 

BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF WATER REACHES OR EXCEEDS BANKFUL.  



WHEN DRIVING ALONG ROADS WHERE THE TERRAIN IS STEEP OR ROCKY...REMAIN

ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ROCK OR MUD SLIDES DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN.



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