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WGUS72 KGSP 180801

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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

400 AM EDT FRI JUL 18 2003



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

HAS EXPIRED AS OF 400 AM EDT...



AT 4 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED ONLY LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS REMAINED OVER 

SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY. RAINFALL HAD ENDED IN THE NORTH...WHERE 

RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 5 AND 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE LATE 

THURSDAY EVENING. NO FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED ANYWHERE IN FRANKLIN 

COUNTY.



EARLY MORNING COMMUTERS...ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH TRAVEL PLANS NORTH 

AND NORTHWEST OF RED HILL...SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY THAT 

SOME ROADS MAY HAVE BEEN CLOSED BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY RAIN THURSDAY 

NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.



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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