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WGUS72 KGSP 100056

FFSGSP

SCC073-100245-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

855 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR OCONEE

COUNTY...



AT 850 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE HEAVY 

RAIN FALLING ACROSS XTREME NORTHERN OCONEE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES 

THAT IN EXCESS OF 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA.



WHILE NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE YET BEEN RECEIVED...IT ALMOST 

CERTAIN THAT FLOODING WILL DEVELOP ALONG PARTS OF HOWARD CREEK AND 

LUMBERPOLE CREEK...JUST WEST OF LAKE JOCASSEE. MUD AND ROCK SLIDES 

WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ALONG MOST ROADS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE 

COUNTY BETWEEN LAKE JOCASSEE AND THE WALHALLA FISH HATCHERY.



CAMPERS ALONG STREAMS IN THIS AREA SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW.



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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