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WGUS72 KGSP 081556

FFSGSP

GAC105-147-081845-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1157 AM EDT WED OCT 8 2003



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 245 PM EDT FOR HART AND

ELBERT COUNTIES...



AT 1145 AM EDT...RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS THE 

WARNING AREA.  RADAR HAS ESTIMATED 4 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS 

CENTRAL HART COUNTY...EXTENDING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN THIRD 

OF ELBERT COUNTY.  A FEW PLACES WITHIN THAT AREA SHOWED ESTIMATES OF 

5 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN.



SOME ACTUAL REPORTS FROM COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS JUST OUTSIDE THE AREA 

OF MAXIMUM RAINFALL ESTIMATES...HARTWELL DAM 3.82 INCHES...HARTWELL 

CITY 4.71 INCHES...ELBERTON 3.85 INCHES.



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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