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000 

WGUS72 KGSP 070537

FFSGSP

SCC045-083-070730-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

138 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 AM EDT FOR WESTERN 

SPARTANBURG COUNTY AND EAST CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY...



AT 130 AM...RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL STILL LOCATED FROM EAST 

OF PELHAM...EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO FIVE FORKS AND SIMPSONVILLE.  THE 

AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAIN HAS SHIFTED SOUTHEAST FROM THE GREER AND GSP 

AIRPORT AREAS. SOME HEAVY RAIN IN STORMS EXTENDED NORTHEAST ACROSS A 

GOOD PART OF NORTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY...FROM DUNCAN TO BOILING 

SPRINGS TO MAYO.  ANOTHER SMALL THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS DEVELOPING 

BETWEEN TRAVELERS REST AND TIGERVILLE.



THE FAST HEAVY RAINFALL HAS CAUSED FLASH FLOODING AROUND GREER AND 

LIKELY ALONG A NUMBER OF SMALL STREAMS AROUND THE GSP AIRPORT AND 

PELHAM AREAS. RAINFALL AT THE GSP AIRPORT SINCE MIDNIGHT HAS 

MEASURED 3.15 INCHES.



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.



A MAJOR CONCERN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT WILL BE THE THREAT OF 

SMALL EARTHEN DAMS BREAKING.  THOSE SHOULD BE WATCHED CAREFULLY 

OVERNIGHT.



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.



$$

JONES

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000 

WGUS72 KGSP 070540 CCA

FFSGSP

SCC045-083-070730-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

138 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2003



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

SPARTANBURG COUNTY AND EAST CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY...



AT 130 AM...RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL STILL LOCATED FROM EAST 

OF PELHAM...EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO FIVE FORKS AND SIMPSONVILLE.  THE 

AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAIN HAS SHIFTED SOUTHEAST FROM THE GREER AND GSP 

AIRPORT AREAS. SOME HEAVY RAIN IN STORMS EXTENDED NORTHEAST ACROSS A 

GOOD PART OF NORTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY...FROM DUNCAN TO BOILING 

SPRINGS TO MAYO.  ANOTHER SMALL THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS DEVELOPING 

BETWEEN TRAVELERS REST AND TIGERVILLE.



THE FAST HEAVY RAINFALL HAS CAUSED FLASH FLOODING AROUND GREER AND 

LIKELY ALONG A NUMBER OF SMALL STREAMS AROUND THE GSP AIRPORT AND 

PELHAM AREAS. RAINFALL AT THE GSP AIRPORT SINCE MIDNIGHT HAS 

MEASURED 3.15 INCHES.



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.



A MAJOR CONCERN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT WILL BE THE THREAT OF 

SMALL EARTHEN DAMS BREAKING.  THOSE SHOULD BE WATCHED CAREFULLY 

OVERNIGHT.



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.



$$

JONES

...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME OF WARNING...

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