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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

227 AM EDT FRI JUL 18 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 AM EDT FOR FRANKLIN

COUNTY...



AT 225 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN COVERING ALL OF 

FRANKLIN COUNTY. THERE WERE A FEW BATCHES OF MODERATE RAINFALL...BUT 

THESE WERE OCCURRING AWAY FROM WHERE EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL 

OCCURRED EARLIER. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 5 AND 6 INCHES OF 

RAIN HAD FALLEN IN NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...NEAR AND NORTHWEST OF 

RED HILL. NO FLOOD REPORTS HAD COME IN TO EITHER COUNTY OFFICIALS OR 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.



THROUGH 4 AM...RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY DISSIPATE FROM THE 

NORTH. MODERATE RAIN COULD OCCUR OCCASIONALLY FROM CARNESVILLE 

SOUTHWARD. FLOODING IS STILL POSSIBLE...AS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM 

EARLIER FILTERS THROUGH COUNTY CREEKS AND STREAM 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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