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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

855 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR CHEROKEE 

COUNTY...



AT 850 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS GRADUALLY 

WEAKENING AND PULLING TO THE SOUTHEAST. SIGNIFICANT URBAN FLOODING 

APPEARS ONGOING BETWEEN GAFFNEY AND BLACKSBURG...WITH WATER FROM THE 

BROAD RIVER COVERING LITTLE HOPE AND RIVER ROADS. ANOTHER ROUND OF 

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE PULLING INTO CHEROKEE COUNTY LATER 

THIS EVENING.



A COMBINATION OF URBAN FLOODING AND CREEK FLOODING WAS ADVERSELY 

IMPACTING TRAVEL ON SEVERAL ROADS BETWEEN GAFFNEY AND 

BLACKSBURG...INCLUDING FOSTER LAKE ROAD...DOGWOOD DRIVE AND RIVER 

DRIVE. ADDITIONAL FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ALONG THE BROAD RIVER 

APPEARS LIKELY AS WATER FROM UPSTREAM FUNNELS THROUGH THE RIVER 

BASIN.



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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