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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

745 PM EDT MON SEP 22 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR TRANSYLVANIA

COUNTY...



AT 735 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAIN NOW WELL EAST OF 

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY.  LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS 

THE COUNTY UNTIL AROUND 9 PM.



THE COUNTY COMMUNICATION CENTER REPORTED THAT FLASH FLOODING HAS 

BECOME QUITE SIGNIFICANT...WITH WATER ABOUT HALF WAY UP SOME CARS IN 

ROSMAN.  APPARENTLY...WATER WAS BACKING UP ON SMALL CREEKS IN AND 

AROUND TOWN...BECAUSE OF THE RISING FRENCH BROAD RIVER.  AT 730 

PM...THE FRENCH BROAD IN ROSMAN WAS AT 8.14 FEET AND RISING.  

OFFICIAL FLOOD STAGE IS 9 FEET...BUT LOWLAND FLOODING BEGINS AROUND 

8 FEET.



ALSO...A NUMBER OF MUD SLIDES HAVE BEEN REPORTED AROUND THE 

COUNTY...INCLUDING HIGHWAY 64...CASHIERS VALLEY...AND SILVERSTEIN 

ROAD.  ALSO...PART OF SILVERSTEIN ROAD WAS REPORTED WASHED AWAY.



EVEN THOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS ENDED...FLOODING AND MUD SLIDES 

COULD CONTINUE THIS EVENING.



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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JONES

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