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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

607 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL AND 

EASTERN CLEVELAND COUNTY...



AT 605 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BATCH OF MODERATE RAINFALL 

STRETCHING FROM NEAR FALLSTON...TO STUBBS. RAINFALL RATES WERE NOT AS

LARGE AS THEY WERE EARLIER...BUT WILL STILL BE HIGH ENOUGH TO RESULT 

IN FLOODING OF SHALLOWER STREAMS AND CREEKS.



COUNTY PERSONNEL REPORTED FLOODING ALONG WATTERSON ROAD IN THE 

GROVER AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL IN THE 

NORTHERN END OF THE COUNTY...BUT NO FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED FROM 

NORTHERN CLEVELAND COUNTY. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL REMAIN IN 

EFFECT THROUGH ITS VALID EXPIRATION TIME.



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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