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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1000 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY

HAS EXPIRED AS OF 1000 PM EDT...



AT 10 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED NO RAIN LEFT IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. 

A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO CHEROKEE 

COUNTY AROUND MIDNIGHT...WHICH COULD RESULT IN RISES ONCE AGAIN ON 

AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS...AND CREATE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND 

IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.



AN OBSERVER AT GAFFNEY REPORTED 4.4 INCHES OF RAIN. A FEW ROADS 

BETWEEN GAFFNEY AND BLACKSBURG WERE FLOODED OUT EARLIER BUT COUNTY 

OFFICIALS REPORT NOW THAT STANDING WATER WAS CONFINED TO LOW SPOTS 

NEAR THE BROAD RIVER.



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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