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WGUS72 KGSP 280340

FFSGSP

SCC045-059-083-280400-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1142 PM EDT MON SEP 27 2004



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GREENVILLE - LAURENS - AND 

SPARTANBURG COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT BUT WILL BE CHANGED TO 

A FLOOD WARNING...



AT 1140 PM....RADAR SHOWED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN WHICH CAUSED SERIOUS 

FLASH FLOODING AROUND THE AREA HAD MAINLY MOVED NORTH OF THE AREA.  

SOME LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUED...AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN 

COULD OCCUR LATER TONIGHT.



BECAUSE OF THE HIGH WATER LEVELS WHICH HAVE OCCURRRED...AND BECAUSE 

SOME STREAMS WERE STILL RISING...A FLOOD WARNING WILL CONTINUE 

OVERNIGHT.



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

DEATHS OCCUR IN FLOODS BECAUSE OF THAT MISTAKE.  TURN AROUND...DO 

NOT DROWN.



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



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