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WGUS72 KGSP 130441

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NCC045-109-130600-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1241 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 AM EDT FOR CLEVELAND AND

LINCOLN COUNTIES...



AT 1240 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

CONTINUING ACROSS MOST OF LINCOLN COUNTY...AND ACROSS THE NORTHERN 

HALF OF CLEVELAND COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST...AND 

WERE SHOWING A SLOW WEAKENING TREND. HOWEVER...AS MUCH AS 4 TO 6 

INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNING AREA SINCE SATURDAY 

EVENING. AN OBSERVER AT CASAR RECEIVED 5.5 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 8 PM.



NO FLOODING HAD BEEN RECORDED IN LINCOLN COUNTY...BUT STREAMS AND 

CREEKS WERE ELEVATED. IN CLEVELAND COUNTY...AN EVACUATION WAS IN 

PROGRESS WHERE WARDS CREEK APPROACHES MORIAH SCHOOL ROAD. OTHER 

STREAM AND CREEK FLOODING IS LIKELY THROUGH THE WARNING 

TIME...ESPECIALLY ALONG BRADLEY 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.



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