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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

1227 AM EST FRI DEC 10 2004



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ANDERSON SC-PICKENS SC-

1227 AM EST FRI DEC 10 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 AM EST FOR PICKENS AND

ANDERSON COUNTIES...



AT 1213 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED TO 

NUMEROUS SHOWERS OVER THE WARNING AREA...WITH MOST OF THE VERY HEAVY 

RAINFALL NOW EAST OF ANDERSON AND PICKENS COUNTIES.  HOWEVER...THESE 

ADDITIONAL SHOWERS COULD ADD ANOTHER QUARTER TO HALF INCH OF 

RAINFALL QUICKLY.



SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED AROUND EASLEY 

AND ANDERSON.  THE SALUDA RIVER WAS ALSO RISING...AND SMALL 

TRIBUTARIES ALONG THE RIVER COULD FLOOD FROM EASLEY DOWN TO PELZER.  

MORE THAN 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL DURING THE EVENING IN PARTS OF THE 

AREA.  THE TWELVE MILE CREEK WEST OF PICKENS WAS ABOVE 9 FEET AND 

STILL RISING.



LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ROCKY

BOTTOM...PICKENS...PENDLETON...NORRIS...NINE TIMES...LIBERTY...

EASLEY...CLEMSON AND CENTRAL.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS...STREAMS AND COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE

BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



LAT...LON 3444 8293 3425 8273 3448 8234 3469 8254

      3506 8261 3503 8295 3458 8283



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