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WGUS72 KGSP 050300

FFSGSP

SCC045-083-050600-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1102 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM FOR CENTRAL GREENVILLE

COUNTY...



THUNDERSTORMS HAD TAPERED OFF FROM THE WEST SIDE OF 

GREENVILLE...ACROSS THE CITY AT 11 PM...BUT CONTINUED EAST OF 

TAYLORS AND AROUND GREER.  ALSO...STRONG STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE 

SHOWN FROM GOWENSVILLE TO LAKE CUNNINGHAM. SPOTTERS...COUNTY...AND 

CITY OFFICIALS REPORTED URBAN FLOODING OF TYPICAL FLOOD PRONE 

LOCATIONS...INCLUDING BRUSHY CREEK AND WADE HAMPTON BOULEVARD. SMALL 

STREAMS FROM THE EAST SIDE TO TAYLORS AND GREER WILL LIKELY CONTINUE 

TO RISE AND FLOOD FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS.  SO FAR...THE REEDY RIVER 

DOWNTOWN AND BRUSHY CREEK AT DEL NORTE ON THE EAST SIDE...HAD NOT 

RISEN MUCH FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL



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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JONES

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