South Carolina, 2010

Flash Flood in South Carolina, August 14, 2010

August 14, 2010 · NWS GSP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A stationary area of thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the central Upstate of South Carolina, resulting in a small area of flash flooding over Greenville County.

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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 happened

The episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.

A stationary area of thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the central Upstate of South Carolina, resulting in a small area of flash flooding over Greenville County.

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 Aug 14, 7:20 PM EST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 7:20 PM EST, 10 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 2:49 PM EST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
349 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2010

GAZ026-028-029-NCZ033-036-037-048>053-057>059-069>072-082-SCZ009>014-
019-152000-
FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-
SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-LINCOLN-GASTON-
MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-
UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
349 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND PIEDMONT THROUGH THIS EVENING.
THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...PERHAPS
EXCESSIVE ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

A WARM AND EXTREMELY MOIST AIR MASS WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION ON
SUNDAY. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO
DEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH A FEW AREAS POSSIBLY
EXPERIENCING EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. THIS WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL
FOR FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS AND URBAN AREAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

GAZ010-017-018-NCZ035-056-062>065-068-501>510-SCZ001>008-152000-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-ALEXANDER-CATAWBA-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-
TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-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-
349 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS
THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS NEAR THE BLUE RIDGE THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS. SEVERAL OF THEM COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL...PERHAPS EXCESSIVE ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

A WARM AND EXTREMELY MOIST AIR MASS WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION
ON SUNDAY. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO
DEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH A FEW AREAS POSSIBLY
EXPERIENCING EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. THIS WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL
FOR FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS AND URBAN AREAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 5:56 PM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 6 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:29 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Greenville

When
August 14, 7:30 PM EST to 9:30 PM EST
Where
Greenville County, 2.57 mi E of Cherokee Forest to 2.55 mi E of Cherokee Forest
Cause
Heavy Rain
Reported by
Fire Department/Rescue
Coordinates
34.884, -82.285

Boiling Springs Rd was closed at the bridge over Brushy Creek, with about a foot of water running over one side of the bridge.

What these are

Flash Flood
Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in South Carolina in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, August 2010

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 257442.