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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

707 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL AND 

EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTY AND NORTHERN GREENWOOD COUNTY...



AT 705 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEAKENING 

BUT STILL COVERING MOST OF SOUTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY...AND ALL OF 

GREENWOOD COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD SHIFTED WEST TO AREAS 

BETWEEN ANDERSON AND IVA...AND SOUTH TO BETWEEN GREENWOOD AND 

CALLISON. RAINFALL WITHIN THE FLOOD WARNING AREA HAD LESSENED TO 

RAINFALL RATES OF LESS THAN ONE INCH PER HOUR...BUT EVENT TOTALS 

WERE APPROACHING 4 INCHES IN SOUTHEAST ANDERSON COUNTY BETWEEN 

BELTON AND HONEA PATH...AND IN NORTHERN GREENWOOD COUNTY FROM 

COKESBURY TO WARE SHOALS.



IN GREENWOOD COUNTY...FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED FROM THE CORONACA

COMMUNITY...WITH WATER COVERING PART OF HIGHWAY 72 AND HIGHWAY 178. 

ALTHOUGH NO FLOODING HAD ACTUALLY BEEN REPORTED FROM 

COKESBURY...RADAR SHOWED THE MOST RAINFALL HAD OCCURRED NEAR THAT 

LOCATION. MOTORISTS WILL WANT TO EXERCISE CAUTION IF TRAVERSING 

NORTHERN GREENWOOD COUNTY THIS EVENING.



ASIDE FROM STREET FLOODING IN BELTON...NO FLOODING HAD YET BEEN 

REPORTED FROM ANDERSON COUNTY. HOWEVER...MOTORISTS BETWEEN BELTON 

AND HONEA PATH WILL WANT TO BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE STANDING WATER OR 

LARGE AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.



WATER LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO RECEDE NOW THAT THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS 

SHIFTED AWAY FROM AREAS THAT HAD TORRENTIAL RAINFALL EARLIER.



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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