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WGUS72 KGSP 280209

FFSGSP

SCC045-059-083-280400-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1010 PM EDT MON SEP 27 2004



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

- LAURENS - AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES...



AT 10 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AN INTENSE RAIN BAND MOVING NORTH 

THROUGH GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN 

EXTENDED FROM AROUND BEREA...TO GREER...INMAN...TO SPARTANBURG...AND 

PACOLET.



SERIOUS FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM LAURENS AND GREENVILLE 

COUNTIES. A BRIDGE WAS REPORTED WASHED OUT ALONG JONESVILLE ROAD 

EAST OF FOUNTAIN INN.  FLOODING WAS REPORTED ALONG AUGUSTA ROAD 

SOUTH OF GREENVILLE...AND IN THE FORK SHOALS AREA.  FLASH FLOODING 

WAS OCCURRING AT COOKS BRIDGE IN LAURENS COUNTY...WHERE ONLY THE 

REFLECTORS AT THE TOP OF THE BRIDGE WERE VISIBLE.  OTHER ROADS AND 

BRIDGES IN THE COUNTY WERE FLOODED.



THE THREAT FOR NEW FLASH FLOODING HAS SHIFTED TO THE NORTHERN PARTS 

OF GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES.  THE REEDY RIVER IN DOWNTOWN 

GREENVILLE WAS AT 9.3 FEET AND RISING.  SIGNIFICANT FLOODING BEGINS 

AT LEVELS ABOVE 11 FEET...ALTHOUGH THE FLOOD STAGE IS 8 FEET.  FLASH 

FLOODING WILL BE LIKELY FROM BEREA TO GREER...AND IN THE PACOLET 

BASIN FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE LINE SOUTH TO THE 

INMAN...BOILING SPRINGS...AND LYMAN AREAS. ANY TRIBUTARIES OF THE 

PACOLET WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



NO SIGNIFICANT FLOOD INFORMATION HAD BEEN RECEIVED AT SPARTANBURG 

COMMUNICATIONS...ALTHOUGH IT IS LIKELY SERIOUS FLASH FLOODING WAS 

ONGOING ANYWHERE FROM THE WOODRUFF AREA SOUTH THROUGH ENOREE TO THE 

LAURENS LINE NORTHEAST OF CLINTON.



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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