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WGUS72 KGSP 161520

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NCC159-161645-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1120 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1230 PM EDT FOR EASTERN 

ROWAN COUNTY...



AT 1115 AM EDT...RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVY RAIN IN THUNDERSTORMS HAD 

MOVED OFF TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF THE COUNTY.  HOWEVER...SOME HIGH 

WATER AND FLOODING CONTINUED...GENERALLY IN THE AREA BOUNDED BY EAST 

SPENCER...TO GRANITE FALLS...TO ROCKWELL...BACK TO EAST SPENCER.  

THE WATER SHOULD CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY RECEDE...UNLESS ADDITIONAL 

THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OCCURS OVER THE AREA.  RADAR ESTIMATED 4 TO 

6 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER A SMALL PART OF THE WARNED AREA...WITH 2 

TO 4 INCHES OVER A LARGER SECTION.



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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