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WGUS72 KGSP 050420

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NCC179-050455-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1218 AM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR UNION COUNTY EXPIRED...



LATEST DOPPLER RADAR IMAGES INDICATE THAT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING

VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE RECENTLY SHIFTED EAST OUT OF UNION COUNTY...BUT

OCCASIONALLY MODERATE RAINFALL WILL LINGER UNTIL 2 OR 3 AM.



DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL LAST EVENING

ACROSS A SMALL AREA SOUTH OF MONROE...WITH AMOUNTS NEAR 2 INCHES

COMMON ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.



LINGERING HIGH WATER...AND POSSIBLY SOME FLOODED LOW SPOTS...SHOULD 

CONTINUE TO BE SEEN ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN UNION 

COUNTY INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.



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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