Headline:
Flash Flood Warning issued September 26 at 7:21PM EDT until September 27 at 12:15AM EDT by NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
Event:
Flash Flood Warning
Urgency:
Immediate
Effective:
September 26, 2024 - 4:21pm
Expires:
September 26, 2024 - 9:15pm
Description:
FFWGSP
The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Anderson County in upstate South Carolina...
Southeastern Greenville County in upstate South Carolina...
Northwestern Laurens County in upstate South Carolina...
Spartanburg County in upstate South Carolina...
* Until 1215 AM EDT.
* At 721 PM EDT, Heavy tropical rain showers continue to lift north
across the area with embedded moderate to heavy rainfall. Between
3 and 5 inches of rain have fallen so far. The expected rainfall
rate is 1 to 2 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 1
to 2 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is
ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Greenville Downtown, Spartanburg, Anderson, Easley, Clemson,
Greenville Eastside, West Greenville, Greer, Mauldin, Taylors,
Simpsonville, Berea, Five Forks, Fountain Inn, Welcome, Homeland
Park, Powdersville, Piedmont, Belton and Boiling Springs SC.
This includes the following streams and drainages...
Mineral Spring Branch, Thicketty Creek, Georges Creek, Rabon
Creek, Rocky River, Trib to Horse Creek, trib to 3 & 20 Creek,
Boling Creek, Dutchman Creek, Jimmies Creek, Dye Creek, Long
Branch, Jones Creek, Kennedy Creek, trib to Fairforest Creek,
Abner Creek, Payne Branch Creek, Trib to Hurricane creek, Whites
Branch, Martin Creek, headwaters of groucher creek, Cherokee
Creek, Cox Creek, Camp Creek, Tugaloo Creek, Grays creek, Durbin
Creek, trib to Huff Creek, Richland Creek, East Beards Creek,
Little Beaverdam Creek, Little River, Reedy creek, Little Creek,
Broadway Creek, Arnold Creek, Langston Creek, Eighteenmile Creek,
Little Durbin Creek, trib to Little River, Beaverdam Creek, Beaver
Creek, Saluda River, Jordan Creek, Frey Creek, North Tyger River,
Little Generostee creek headwaters, Trib to Big Creek, Trib to
Saluda river, Trib to Lawsons Fork Creek, part of Lake Hartwell,
Nesbit Creek, Allen Creek, Big Shoally Creek, trib to North Tyger
River, trib to Broadway Creek, Smith Creek, Cedar Shoals Creek,
trib to S Tyger River, trib to Saluda River, Rock Creek, trib
flows into Lake Hartwell, lake Hartwell, Hencoop Creek, Clear
Creek, trib to Tyger River, Sugar Creek, Cleveland Creek, Pacolet
River, Pickens Creek, Savannah River, McElwain Creek, Wilson
Creek, Russell Lake, Charles Creek, Pea Creek, northern part Lake
Hartwell, Barkers Creek, trib to Lake Hartwell, North Rabon Creek,
Meadow Creek, Pickens Creek headwaters, Little Thicketty Creek,
East Prong Little Generostee Creek, Twomile Creek, Double Branch,
Ranson Creek, Middle Branch Brushy Creek, Little Grove Creek, Big
Generostee Creek, Big Brushy Creek, Canoe Creek, Island Creek,
Johnson Creek, South Rabon Creek, Bridge Fork Creek, Fawn Branch,
South Tyger River, Fairforest Creek, Horse Creek, Turkey Creek,
Middle Tyger River, Weems Creek, cane creek, Cane Creek,
Chinquapin Creek, Headwaters of Mountain creek, Lakeside Branch,
Trib to Pacolet River, Welcome Creek, Baker Creek, Town Creek, Big
Garvin Creek, Frohawk Creek, Grove Creek, Grays Creek, Huff Creek,
Six and Twenty Creek, Betty Green Creek, Tyger River, trib to lake
Hartwell, Motlow creek, Trib to Rocky Creek, Brushy Creek, trib to
Enoree River, Mill Creek, Trib to Broad Mouth Creek, Trib to South
Tyger River, trib to South Tyger River, trib to Lawsons Fork
Creek, Horsepen Creek, Mountain Creek, Earle Branch/Rison Creek,
Buckhead Creek, trib to Jimmies Creek, Dillard creek, Hurricane
Creek, Peters Creek, Lake Hartwell, Cuffie Creek, Howard Branch,
Wards Creek, Little Generostee Creek, Little Garvin Creek, Enoree
Creek, Laurel Creek, Rocky Creek, Gethsemane Creek, headwater of
Wilson Creek, Theodore Branch, Broad Mouth Creek, Enoree River,
Craven Creek, Gilder Creek, Big Creek, Graze Creek, Maple creek,
Reedy River, Little Brushy Creek, Reedy Creek, Kelsey Creek, Bens
Creek, Big Ferguson Creek, Lawsons Fork Creek, Three and Twenty
Creek, Trib to Lake Hartwell and Wile Creek.
Instruction:
When it is safe to do so, please report flooding or landslides
threatening roads or property to the National Weather Service
Greenville-Spartanburg by calling toll free, 1, 800, 2 6 7, 8 1 0 1,
by posting on our Facebook page, or via X using hashtag NWSGSP. Your
message should describe the specific location where impacts occurred
and the depth of flooding observed.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Area Description:
Anderson, SC; Greenville, SC; Laurens, SC; Spartanburg, SC
Forcast Office:
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC