Headline:
Flash Flood Warning issued September 27 at 3:09AM EDT until September 27 at 6:30AM EDT by NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC
Event:
Flash Flood Warning
Urgency:
Immediate
Effective:
September 27, 2024 - 12:09am
Expires:
September 27, 2024 - 3:30am
Description:
FFWGSP
The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg has extended
the
* 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 630 AM EDT.
* At 309 AM EDT, Heavy tropical rain showers continue to lift north
across the area with embedded moderate to heavy rainfall. Between
4 and 6 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 3 inches are possible as tropical rainbands lift north over the
area. Flash flooding may be ongoing in some areas already, and
could begin shortly in others.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Heavy rain producing
flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
* 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...
North Rabon Creek, Rocky Creek, Durbin Creek, Big Garvin Creek,
Eighteenmile Creek, Kennedy Creek, Broad Mouth Creek, Big Creek,
Trib to Big Creek, Jimmies Creek, Ranson Creek, Cuffie Creek,
Buckhead Creek, Sugar Creek, Wile Creek, Jones Creek, Little
Generostee Creek, Clear Creek, Martin Creek, Savannah River,
Saluda River, Theodore Branch, trib to Fairforest Creek, Trib to
Hurricane creek, Big Ferguson Creek, Grove Creek, Little Creek,
Tugaloo Creek, Big Shoally Creek, East Beards Creek, trib to South
Tyger River, trib to Huff Creek, Gilder Creek, trib to Saluda
River, Three and Twenty Creek, Trib to Saluda river, Little Grove
Creek, Welcome Creek, Baker Creek, Howard Branch, trib to North
Tyger River, Meadow Creek, Mineral Spring Branch, North Tyger
River, Abner Creek, Frey Creek, Betty Green Creek, Craven Creek,
Beaverdam Creek, Tyger River, Dillard creek, Gethsemane Creek,
Rabon Creek, Payne Branch Creek, Hurricane Creek, Boling Creek,
trib to Jimmies Creek, Little Durbin Creek, Trib to Pacolet River,
Cane Creek, Allen Creek, Canoe Creek, Whites Branch, Cleveland
Creek, Richland Creek, trib to Lawsons Fork Creek, Johnson Creek,
Island Creek, trib to 3 & 20 Creek, Thicketty Creek, Georges
Creek, McElwain Creek, Six and Twenty Creek, Little Beaverdam
Creek, cane creek, Grays Creek, Headwaters of Mountain creek, trib
to Little River, Bridge Fork Creek, Weems Creek, Brushy Creek,
Graze Creek, Dutchman Creek, Langston Creek, Cedar Shoals Creek,
Trib to Horse Creek, Kelsey Creek, Pickens Creek, Lake Hartwell,
trib to Tyger River, Turkey Creek, Twomile Creek, Double Branch,
Dye Creek, Fairforest Creek, Motlow creek, Mountain Creek,
Lakeside Branch, Nesbit Creek, Pea Creek, lake Hartwell, trib
flows into Lake Hartwell, Maple creek, Big Brushy Creek, Broadway
Creek, Russell Lake, Little Generostee creek headwaters, Little
Thicketty Creek, Beaver Creek, Chinquapin Creek, trib to S Tyger
River, Wards Creek, Grays creek, Huff Creek, Cox Creek, Town
Creek, Little Garvin Creek, Peters Creek, headwaters of groucher
creek, Horsepen Creek, South Rabon Creek, Middle Tyger River, Mill
Creek, Enoree Creek, trib to Lake Hartwell, Reedy River, Trib to
Lawsons Fork Creek, Rock Creek, Charles Creek, Long Branch, Trib
to South Tyger River, Camp Creek, Fawn Branch, Horse Creek,
Barkers Creek, Jordan Creek, Trib to Rocky Creek, Enoree River,
Little Brushy Creek, northern part Lake Hartwell, Pacolet River,
Reedy Creek, Pickens Creek headwaters, Lawsons Fork Creek, Big
Generostee Creek, Cherokee Creek, Middle Branch Brushy Creek, trib
to lake Hartwell, Frohawk Creek, Trib to Lake Hartwell, trib to
Broadway Creek, Laurel Creek, Arnold Creek, East Prong Little
Generostee Creek, Smith Creek, Bens Creek, Earle Branch/Rison
Creek, Little River, headwater of Wilson Creek, part of Lake
Hartwell, Wilson Creek, Trib to Broad Mouth Creek, Hencoop Creek,
South Tyger River, Reedy creek, trib to Enoree River and Rocky
River.
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.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Area Description:
Anderson, SC; Greenville, SC; Laurens, SC; Spartanburg, SC
Forcast Office:
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC