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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

704 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003



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

EASTERN CLEVELAND COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AS OF 700 PM EDT...



AT 7 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

MOVING OUT OF EASTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY...INTO WESTERN CLEVELAND 

COUNTY. NO RAINFALL REMAINED OVER THE CENTRAL OR EASTERN PARTS OF 

THE COUNTY. THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING...SCATTERED STORMS 

WILL BE POSSIBLE JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTY...BUT RAINFALL 

RATES ARE FORECAST TO BE MUCH LESS THAN THEY WERE EARLIER...WHEN 

MANY LOCATIONS RECEIVED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL.



THROUGH 7 PM...THE ONLY REPORT OF FLOODING WAS ON WATTERSON 

ROAD...NEAR THE TOWN OF GROVER. COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT THE ROAD HAD 

CLEARED UP...AND THERE WERE NO OTHER KNOWN FLOOD PROBLEMS.



WATER LEVELS COULD TEMPORARILY RISE AGAIN...AND SOME STREAMS OR 

CREEKS MAY APPROACH BANKFULL...BUT ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS NOT 

ANTICIPATED UNLESS STORMS REMAIN OVER ONE LOCATION FOR LONG PERIODS 

OF 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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BURRUS

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