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WGUS72 KGSP 012334

FFSGSP

SCC045-020145-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

727 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR GREENVILLE

COUNTY...



HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GREENVILLE 

COUNTY...WITH ANOTHER INCH OR TWO OF RAIN EXPECTED. THE CLUSTER OF 

THUNDERSTORMS COULD STALL OVER THE AREA...CAUSING A SIGNIFICANT 

FLOODING PROBLEM...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE REEDY RIVER AND BRUSHY CREEK.



HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS ESPECIALLY IN AND 

AROUND THE INTERSECTION OF SULPHUR SPRINGS AND HUNTS BRIDGE ... 

TANNER...REID SCHOOL ROADS... AND THE UNDERPASS AREA ON CEDAR LANE 

ROAD.



DURING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS...SEVERE URBAN FLOODING CAN OCCUR IN AREAS

SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...AND LOW AREAS WHERE WATER TENDS TO COLLECT.

CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND STORM DRAINS.



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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