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WGUS72 KGSP 070454

FFSGSP

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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1255 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 315 AM EDT FOR WESTERN 

SPARTANBURG COUNTY AND EAST CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY...



A NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX...CENTERED AROUND THE GSP 

AIRPORT...HAS BEEN DUMPING EXCESSIVE RAINFAL SINCE 1130 PM.  THE 

COMPLEX HAS GROWN IN SIZE...WITH NEW FEEDER CELLS DEVELOPING TO THE 

SOUTHWEST ACROSS FIVE FORKS TO EAST OF MAULDIN.  RAINFALL JUST SINCE 

MIDNIGHT AT THE GSP AIRPORT HAS BEEN OVER 2.75 INCHES...WITH MORE 

AROUND THE CITY OF GREER.



THIS HAS BECOME A VERY SEVERE AND DANGEROUS URBAN FLASH FLOODING 

SITUATION...ESPECIALLY AROUND GREER...PART OF TAYLORS AND EAST SIDE 

GREENVILLE...PELHAM...FROM DUNCAN WEST TO THE COUNTY LINE.  IN 

ADDITION TO SEVERE URBAN FLASH FLOODING...SOME STREAMS SUBJECT TO 

RAPID FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE ABNER CREEK...ROCKY CREEK...BRUSHY 

CREEK...UPPER TRIBUTARIES OF THE ENOREE RIVER...AND EVEN SMALL 

STREAMS IN NEIGHBORHOODS.  AGAIN...THIS HAS BECOME A SERIOUS...LIFE 

THREATENING...URBAN FLASH FLOOD SITUATION.  STAY OFF OF ROADS IN THE 

WARNING AREA...BUT IF YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE LOCATION...MOVE 

QUICKLY AND SAFELY TO HIGHER GROUND NOW.  BECAUSE OF THE PROLONGED 

WET SPELL...YOU SHOULD WATCH SMALL DAMS FOR THE POTENTIAL OF 

OVERFLOW AND BREECHES.



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 DRIVE ACROSS BRIDGES WHICH ARE UNDER WATER. ROADS AT THE ENDS

OF THE BRIDGE MAY WASH OUT OR WEAKEN...AND YOUR VEHICLE MAY FALL INTO

THE RAGING CURRENT. DO NOT RISK YOUR LIFE. BACK UP AND GO ANOTHER

WAY.



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JONES

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