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WGUS72 KGSP 301944

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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

343 PM EDT WED JUL 30 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR RABUN

COUNTY...



AT 340 PM...WEATHER RADAR STILL SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

COVERING MOST OF EASTERN RABUN COUNTY...BUT ONLY SCATTERED STORMS 

OVER THE WESTERN HALF. RAINFALL RATES HAD BEEN FALLING...BUT RADAR 

ESTIMATES SUGGEST AS MUCH AS TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAD 

FALLEN OVER NORTHEAST RABUN COUNTY...IN THE VICINITY OF SATOLAH. 

THIS WILL BE ENOUGH TO SEND SOME STREAMS AND CREEKS TO NEAR 

BANKFULL...AND POSSIBLY OUT OF THEIR BANKS TO FLOOD 

ROADS...INCLUDING BAILEY BRANCH AND HOLCOMB CREEK. CAMPGROUNDS NEAR 

STREAMS IN THE WILDERNESS AREAS OF NORTHEAST RABUN COUNTY COULD ALSO 

FLOOD AS A RESULT OF THE RISING WATER.



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.



PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY CAMPERS...SHOULD MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND NOW...DO NOT DELAY. WATER MAY RISE TOO QUICKLY FOR YOU

TO GET OUT OF DANGER LATER.



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