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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

628 PM EST FRI FEB 6 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM EST FOR UNION COUNTY 

IN NORTH CAROLINA...



AT 628 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF 

HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH INTO UNION COUNTY 

NORTH CAROLINA. THESE SHOWERS WERE PRODUCING RAINFALL AT RATES IN 

EXCESS OF ONE HALF INCH PER HOUR. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL 

LIKELY WORSEN ALREADY EXISTING FLOOD PROBLEMS THROUGH 8 PM.



FLOODING AROUND THE COUNTY HAS BEEN REPORTED ON LAWYERS ROAD...RIDGE 

ROAD...WAXHAW ROAD...AND ROCKY RIDGE ROAD WHERE A CAR WAS REPORTED 

SUBMERGED UP TO THE WINDSHIELD IN WATER. SOME RESIDENTS HAVE 

REPORTED GARAGES BEING FLOODED ALONG INDIAN TRAIL STREAM.



KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER AND NEARBY STREAM CONDITIONS. PEOPLE 

ALONG STREAMS SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING 

AFFECTS THEIR LOCATION.



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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