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WGUS72 KGSP 180554

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GAC137-180715-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

149 AM EDT FRI JUL 18 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 315 AM EDT FOR HABERSHAM

COUNTY...



AT 150 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED ONLY LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS REMAINED OVER

HABERSHAM COUNTY...WITH HEAVIER RAIN WELL OFF TO THE EAST. MODERATE 

RAIN WAS HEADING EAST INTO HABERSHAM COUNTY FROM NORTHERN HALL 

COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN 

OVER MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HABERSHAM COUNTY SINCE THURSDAY 

EVENING.



FLOODING CONTINUED IN THE VICINITY OF MOUNT AIRY. WILSON ROAD 

WAS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER FROM A LAKE THAT WAS OVERTOPPING

A BRIDGE. THE WATER WAS SPREADING OUT TOWARD THE SERENITY HILLS 

SECTION OF MOUNT AIRY. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE AREA WERE ALSO 

RUNNING HIGH AND COULD COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS AS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL 

FROM UPSTREAM WORKS ITS WAY THROUGH COUNTY CREEK BASINS.



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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