The National Weather Service in Greenville, S.C., has posted a Flash Flood Watch for several counties in northeast Georgia, South Carolina and western North Carolina. The Georgia counties that are included are: Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens, Elbert and Franklin counties.
Forecasters say rainfall could amount to an inch-an-hour at times.
FULL TEXT OF FLASH FLOOD WATCH:
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
425 AM EDT THU JUN 4 2009
...HEAVY RAINFALL TO AFFECT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST
GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
.SOUTHERLY FLOW AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL
INCREASE TODAY. THIS FLOW WILL BRING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE
INTO THE AREA. STRONG ATMOSPHERIC FORCING WILL COMBINE WITH THE
MOISTURE TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS. AS THE FORCING AND MOISTURE INCREASE...THE
SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND MAY REPEATEDLY AFFECT THE SAME
LOCATIONS.
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-ALEXANDER-IREDELL-
DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-
UNION NC-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS-
GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-
RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-
EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-
GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-
GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-
LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAYTON...CLARKESVILLE...TOCCOA...
HARTWELL...ELBERTON...STATESVILLE...MOCKSVILLE...HICKORY...
SALISBURY...SHELBY...LINCOLNTON...GASTONIA...CHARLOTTE...
CONCORD...MONROE...LENOIR...MORGANTON...MARION...LAKE LURE...
RUTHERFORD...COLUMBUS...GREENVILLE...SPARTANBURG...GAFFNEY...
ROCK HILL...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE...LAURENS...UNION...CHESTER...
GREENWOOD
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL DEVELOP AS SEVERAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS CROSS MUCH OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE
SOUTH CAROLINA...AND THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF NORTH
CAROLINA. RAINFALL RATES AROUND AN INCH PER HOUR ARE LIKELY IN
THE HEAVIEST SHOWERS...AND SEVERAL OF THESE COULD REPEATEDLY
AFFECT THE SAME LOCATIONS.
SLOW RISES ALONG WATERWAYS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS MORNING AS
PRECIPITATION SPREADS INTO THE AREA. RAPID RISES ALONG STREAMS
AND CREEKS THROUGHOUT THE WATCH AREA CAN BE EXPECTED AS HEAVY
SHOWERS DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FLASH FLOODING MAY
DEVELOP QUICKLY IN LOW LYING AREAS NEAR STREAMS...AND DEEP AND
DANGEROUS PONDING OF WATER MAY ALSO DEVELOP IN POOR DRAINAGE
LOCATIONS. LARGER STREAMS AND MAIN STEM RIVERS MAY EXPERIENCE
SIGNIFICANT RISES AS WELL...MAINLY DURING THE EVENING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.
YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION
SHOULD FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS BE ISSUED.
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