Name: Flood in Georgia, September 15, 2002
Start: 2002-09-15T14:00
End: 2002-09-15T14:30
Location: Georgia

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 15, 1:24 PM EST, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 1:24 PM EST, 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
224 PM EDT SUN SEP 15 2002

REMNANTS OF HANNA APPEARS TO BE ON A TRACK JUST S OF AREA. HEAVY
RAIN PRODUCING FLOODING IN NE GA AND UPSTATE SC AT THIS TIME.
FAVORABLE PARAMETERS FOR PRECIPITATION MOVE N INTO NC THIS EVENING
AND OUT OF AREA OVERNIGHT. BASED ON RADAR TRENDS...LIMITED LIKELY
POPS TO GSP/AVL AND POINTS NE...WITH CHANCE TO SW. EXTENDED FLOOD
WATCH THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR AREA BETWEEN I-26 IN SC AND US-74 IN
NC...WHERE LIKELY POPS COINCIDE WITH BETTER 48 HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS.
ALTHOUGH I-40 CORRIDOR EXPECTED TO RECEIVE HEAVY RAIN AS
WELL...PREVIOUS TOTALS ON LOW SIDE AND DO NOT THINK FLOODING AS
LIKELY THERE.

MON FEATURES PARTIAL DRYING ON BACK SIDE OF LEE TROUGH IN DOWNGLIDE
FLOW...THOUGH ENOUGH MOISTURE TO MAINTAIN CHANCE POPS AS FRONT
ARRIVES LATE IN DAY. FRONT THROUGH AREA MON NIGHT...STALLING JUST S
OF AREA. BY TUE NIGHT ENOUGH MOISTURE ALONG TAIL OF FRONT TO
INTRODUCE POPS S AN W...SPREADING NE ACROSS AREA WED.

EXTENDED FEATURES ANOTHER FRONT REACHING AREA FRI...WITH YET ANOTHER
FRONT APPROACHING ON SUN. CHANCE POPS THROUGH MUCH OF EXTENDED.
CURRENT FORECAST OF NEXT TROPICAL SYSTEM TOO FAR AWAY TO IMPACT
LOCAL AREA BY DAY 7.

FCSTID =    7
GSP   66  87  65  84 /  60  30  20  10
AND   67  88  66  85 /  40  30  20  10
CLT   65  87  64  83 /  60  30  20  10
HKY   65  86  64  82 /  60  30  20  10
AVL   62  83  60  80 /  60  30  20  10

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS EVENING FOR ZONES NCZ066>072...NCZ082.
SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS EVENING FOR ZONES
SCZ003...SCZ006>009...SCZ012>014.
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 15, 1:38 PM EST, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
238 PM EDT SUN SEP 15 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

236 PM     WALHALLA                  SC   FLASH FLOOD
09/15/02   OCONEE                         TORRINGTON ROAD NEAR
                                          WALHALLA IS CLOSED DUE TO
                                          FLOODING. REPORT FROM
                                          COUNTY 911.

230 PM     SENECA                    SC   FLASH FLOOD
09/15/02   OCONEE                         MAULDIN MILL RD NEAR
                                          SENECA CLOSED DUE TO
                                          FLOODING. REPORT FROM
                                          COUNTY 911.

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The radar

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Hart

When: September 15, 2:00 PM EST to 2:30 PM EST
Where: Hart forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.351, -82.964 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A creek flooded Flat Shoals Rd in Hartwell.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Georgia in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Georgia, September 2002

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5321147.