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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

502 PM EST FRI FEB 6 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  UNION COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA.



* UNTIL 800 PM EST



* AT 455 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAIN       

  CONTINUING ACROSS UNION COUNTY.  RADAR HAS ESTIMATED MORE THAN AN  

  INCH OF RAINFALL SINCE ABOUT 3 PM...IN ADDITION TO MODERATE TO     

  HEAVY RAIN WHICH FELL EARLIER.



* RADAR SHOWED A COUPLE MORE BATCHES OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND SOME       

  THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH WILL MOVE ACROSS UNION COUNTY LATE THIS      

  AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.  THIS WILL PRODUCE ANOTHER INCH  

  OF RAIN AT LEAST...AND WILL BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE QUICK RISES IN      

  FLOOD PRONE AREAS BETWEEN MONROE AND THE MECKLENBURG LINE...AND    

  ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTY.



SOME ROADS WILL FLOOD AND WILL LIKELY BE BARRICADED.  DO NOT DRIVE 

INTO FLOODED AREAS...WHETHER BARRICADED OR NOT.  MOST FLOOD DEATHS 

HAPPEN IN VEHICLES.



LAT...LON 3500 8030 3482 8034 3482 8078 3501 8078

          3521 8053 3516 8046 3517 8029



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