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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

435 PM EDT MON JUL 7 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR GREENVILLE

COUNTY...



AT 435 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF 

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH ACROSS THE 

INTERSTATE 85 CORRIDOR IN CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES 

RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE INCH IN THE PAST HOUR WITH THESE 

THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAVE ALREADY FALLEN 

OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY...MAINLY FROM MARIETTA TO NORTH 

OF TAYLORS.



LOCALIZED FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE TOWN OF SLATER. STREAMS 

AND CREEKS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY ARE LIKELY NEAR 

BANKFULL...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1/2 TO 1 INCH IS POSSIBLE 

BEFORE THE RAIN ENDS. DEEP STANDING WATER MAY DEVELOP IN THE 

NORMALLY POOR DRAINAGE 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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