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WGUS72 KGSP 170002

FFSGSP

SCC007-047-170030-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

800 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND 

EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTY AND NORTHERN GREENWOOD COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AS 

OF 800 PM EDT...



THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. MODERATE RAINFALL 

CONTINUED FROM GREENWOOD SOUTH TO CALLISON...BUT NO ADDITIONAL 

RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING IN EITHER NORTHERN GREENWOOD...OR CENTRAL AND 

EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTIES. NO ADDITIONAL FLOOD REPORTS HAD BEEN 

REPORTED TO COUNTY OFFICIALS.



STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING 

TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT. EVEN THOUGH STREAMS AND 

CREEKS WERE RECEDING...SOME ROADWAYS STILL MAY BE COVERED WITH 

WATER. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED 

ROADWAYS.



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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BURRUS

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