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WGUS72 KGSP 130423 AAA

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NCC161-130515-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...UPDATED TO INCLDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1217 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 115 AM EDT FOR NORTHERN 

RUTHERFORD COUNTY...



AT 1215 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED PRECIPITATION HAD ENDED ACROSS THE 

WARNING AREA...BUT SCATTERED STORMS WERE DEVELOPING UPSTREAM IN THE 

NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. THESE STORMS COULD WORK THEIR WAY INTO THE 

WARNING AREA LATER...AND DELAY THE ABILITY OF HIGH WATER TO RECEDE. 

IN ADDITION...STORMS WERE DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTH...NEAR FOREST CITY 

AND THE UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THESE STORMS...THE ONES TO THE 

SOUTH OF THE WARNING AREA...WERE MOVING NORTHEAST.



NUMEROUS STREAMS AND CREEKS HAD COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS AND WERE 

FLOODING ROADS. GIRL SCOUT CAMP ROAD WAS COMPLETELY FLOODED BY HIGH 

WATER. IN ADDITION...WATER BLOCKED 12 FEET OF HIGHWAY 226. NORTH 

FORK ROAD WAS BLOCKED BY A MUDSLIDE.



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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