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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

746 PM EDT THU AUG 18 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

  OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA



* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT



* AT 742 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MERGING INTO ONE LARGE AREA

  OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN RABUN COUNTY...AS WELL AS WESTERN AND CENTRAL

  OCONEE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES AS MUCH AS TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN

  THIS EVENING BETWEEN LAKEMONT AND LONG CREEK...AND ALSO AROUND

  WESTMINSTER. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES...WITH ISOLATED

  HIGHER AMOUNTS...WILL LIKELY BRING SHALLOWER STREAMS AND CREEKS

  OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN THE WARNING AREA. 



  ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLASH FLOODING ARE STEKOA AND LITTLE

  PERSIMMON CREEK IN RABUN COUNTY...AS WELL AS LITTLE TOXAWAY

  CREEK...TWELVE MILE CREEK AND TRIBUTARIES TO THE CHATTOOGA RIVER

  IN OCONEE COUNTY.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SALEM...  

MOUNTAIN REST...PINE MOUNTAIN...MOUNTAIN CITY...DILLARD AND   

CLAYTON.



TO REPORT FLOODING... HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY

YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN

GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG.



LAT...LON 3477 8351 3468 8330 3457 8314 3450 8300

      3461 8285 3500 8294 3500 8339 3498 8350

      3490 8357



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