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WGUS72 KGSP 190441

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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1242 AM EDT TUE AUG 19 2003



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

GREENVILLE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AS OF 1230 AM EDT...



AT 1240 AM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SIGINIFICANT RAINFALL HAD 

SHIFTED AWAY FROM CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY. SEVERAL ROADS WERE 

CLOSED EARLIER IN BEREA...GREENVILLE AND PELHAM. THE GREENVILLE 

COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER COULD NOT CONFIRM WHETHER BARRICADES 

FOR HAMMETT STREET AT THE INTERSECTION OF OLD BUNCOMBE RD...AUGUSTA 

ROAD AT INTERSTATE 85 AND RILEY SMITH DRIVE...AND 8TH AVENUE IN THE 

JUDSON MILL AREA OF SOUTHWEST GREENVILLE HAD BEEN REMOVED...SO 

MOTORISTS WITH TRAVEL PLANS ACROSS CENTRAL GREENVILLE COUNTY WILL 

STILL NEED TO EXERCISE CAUTION OVERNIGHT. NOW THAT THE RAINFALL HAS 

EXITED THE AREA...WATER LEVELS SHOULD RECEDE.



THE REEDY RIVER AT DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE CRESTED AT 8.59 FEET AROUND 

MIDNIGHT. THE RIVER WAS SLOWLY FALLING...AND WILL FALL BELOW FLOOD 

STAGE BY 3 AM. PART OF CLEVELAND PARK WILL REMAIN INUNDATED BY WATER 

UNTIL THE RIVER FALLS BELOW FLOOD STAGE OF 8 FEET.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN OR NEAR ANY SMALL 

CREEK TONIGHT...AND AVOID ROUTES THAT YOU KNOW ARE FLOOD PRONE.



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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