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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1215 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  WESTERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

  EAST CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 315 AM EDT



* AT MIDNIGHT EDT...THE GREER POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED URBAN       

  FLOODING ALREADY OCCURING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS...SUCH AS WADE      

  HAMPTON BOULEVARD...SUBER ROAD...MEMORIAL DRIVE...AND BUNCOMBE     

  STREET. RADAR SHOWED A NEAR STATIONARY COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS    

  FROM BLUE RIDGE TO GREER AND TAYLORS...DUMPING EXTREMELY HEAVY     

  RAINFALL.



* URBAN FLASH FLOODING WILL BECOME SEVERE AROUND PARTS OF GREER AND  

  TAYLORS...AND ACROSS THE COUNTY LINE TOWARD INMAN AND LYMAN        

  EVENTUALLY.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT

QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY

IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.  DO NOT DRIVE 

INTO FLOODED AREAS...REGARDLESS OF THE TYPE OF VEHICLE YOU ARE 

DRIVING.  STAY AWAY FROM RAPIDLY RISING SMALL STREAMS.



$$

JONES

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