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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC

424 AM EDT THU JUN 18 2009



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CHESTER SC-

424 AM EDT THU JUN 18 2009



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 AM EDT FOR

EASTERN CHESTER COUNTY...



AT 419 AM EDT...THE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS 

HAD DRIFTED INTO THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY...JUST WEST OF 

INTERSTATE 77 AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 97. HEAVY RAIN HAD ENDED FARTHER 

TO THE NORTH...BUT RADAR ESTIMATED THAT AROUND 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD 

FALLEN IN A LARGE AREA BETWEEN HIGHWAY 9 AND HIGHWAY 97. 



IT IS LIKELY THAT A FEW STREAMS IN THIS AREA...PARTICULARLY THOSE 

THAT FEED ROCKY CREEK...ARE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. FLOODING MAY ALSO 

DEVELOP ALONG BELL CREEK AND LITTLE ROCKY CREEK IN THE SOUTHERN PART 

OF THE COUNTY IF THE HEAVY RAIN PERSISTS.



LAT...LON 3454 8089 3456 8107 3458 8113 3474 8119

      3481 8118 3482 8100



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