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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

835 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR UNION COUNTY HAS

EXPIRED AS OF 830 PM EDT...



AT 833 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

COVERING SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY...FROM WAXHAW TO STURDIVANTS. THESE 

STORMS WERE STILL HEAVY PRECIPITATION PRODUCERS...WITH RADAR 

ESTIMATING AS MUCH AS 2 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 730 PM NEAR WAXHAW. 

RADAR TRENDS SHOWED THE STORMS WEAKENING AS THEY MOVED TO THE EAST.



COUNTY OFFICIALS WERE NOT REPORTING ANY ONGOING FLOODING AS OF 830 

PM. THE STORMS OVER SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY WERE NOT AFFECTING AREAS 

THAT EXPERIENCED FLOODING EARLIER THIS EVENING...BUT COULD STILL 

PRODUCE ISOLATED AREAS OF STANDING WATER ON ROADS...AND IN POOR 

DRAINAGE AREAS. 



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO CLOSELY MONITOR THIS 

SITUATION. WARNINGS COULD BE ISSUED AGAIN SHOULD THE STORMS BEGIN 

MOVING OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS REPEATEDLY.



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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