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WGUS72 KGSP 280048

FFSGSP

SCC045-059-083-280400-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

850 PM EDT MON SEP 27 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR GREENVILLE 

-LAURENS - AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES...



AT 840 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AN INTENSE RAIN BAND MOVING 

NORTH THROUGH GREENVILLE...LAURENS...AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES.  THE 

HEAVIEST RAIN EXTENDED FROM EAST OF BELTON TO LAURENS AND CLINTON.  

FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY START IN THE GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG 

AREAS AROUND 9 PM...AND PERSIST MOST OF THE EVENING.



IN LAURENS COUNTY...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY 911 ALONG HIGHWAY 

72 WEST...INTERSTATE 26 EAST BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 52 AND 55...AND 

INTERSTATE 385 IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY.  ALSO...HIGHWAY 

221 SOUTH AROUND WATERLOO WAS FLOODED.  MANY OF THESE AREAS HAD UP 

TO A FOOT AND A HALF OF WATER FLOODING THE ROADS. SOME SMALL STREAMS 

WERE LIKELY INVOLVED IN SOME OF THE FLOODING.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 

DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADS OR ACROSS FLOODED BRIDGES.  MANY 

DEATHS OCCUR IN FLOODS BECAUSE OF THAT MISTAKE.



LAT...LON 3507 8190 3507 8261 3444 8234 3430 8174



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