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WGUS72 KGSP 050231

FFSGSP

NCC179-050330-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1025 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR...



HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS UNION COUNTY. MONROE 911 CENTER 

HAS RECEIVED SEVERAL REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING. MORGAN MILL ROAD 

...CHARLOTTE AVENUE AND OLIVE BRANCH ROAD WERE ALL FLOODED. RUNOFF 

FROM THE HEAVY RAIN WILL KEEP STREAMS LEVELS HIGH OR WILL CAUSE THEM 

TO CONTINUE TO RISE OVER THE NEXT HOUR. THE RAIN SHOULD START TO 

TAPER OFF WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.  



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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