Flash Flood Warning issued October 10 at 11:02PM EDT until October 11 at 2:00AM EDT by NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC - The Avery Journal-Times was recorded by Global Incident Tracker on Sunday, 11 October 2026 at 03:02 UTC. The event is classified as a flood incident with a severity rating of Moderate, and was detected through GNEWS.
Reported in media coverage. Found by our incident harvester, which queries each country's press in its own language, one incident category at a time (disaster). Original headline: "Flash Flood Warning issued October 10 at 11:02PM EDT until October 11 at 2:00AM EDT by NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC - The Avery Journal-Times".
Understanding flood events
River, flash, urban and coastal flooding events. Flood damage depends less on total rainfall than on how fast water arrives and where it has to go. Flash floods in urban areas can rise within minutes because sealed surfaces stop absorption, while river floods build over days and allow more warning time.
How severity is rated
Global Incident Tracker rates every event on a four-step scale — Minor, Moderate, Severe and Extreme — derived from the source signal: earthquake magnitude, official GDACS alert colour, or the volume of independent media reporting for news-derived incidents. This event is currently rated Moderate. Ratings can change as more information becomes available, and a rating is a monitoring signal rather than an official government assessment.
Safety guidance for flood situations
- Never walk or drive through floodwater — 15 cm of moving water can knock you down and 60 cm can float a car.
- Move to higher floors or higher ground early; do not wait for water to reach you.
- Switch off electricity at the mains if water is entering the building and it is safe to reach.
- Treat all floodwater as contaminated: wash hands, boil drinking water and clean wounds.
- Follow only official instructions from local authorities and emergency services — this page is a monitoring record, not an emergency alert.
Data and verification
This record was generated automatically from GNEWS and de-duplicated against our archive. Early reports for any incident can be revised: locations get refined, magnitudes are recalculated and impact figures change as assessments arrive. We deliberately do not publish casualty numbers unless an official source states them. The original source report is linked at the top of this page.
Keep watching the situation on our live world incident map, browse every floods we track on the Flood tracker, or see today's global picture on the incidents today page.
Timeline and sources
Reported
Reported by News reports (Google News). Not independently confirmed. Copies of one syndicated story are counted once.
How statuses are decided · the number of reports is never treated as confirmation.
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTCFirst report News report
First recorded from News reports (Google News).
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 07:55 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued October 11 at 3:55AM EDT until October 11 at 7:00AM EDT by NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC - The Avery Journal-Times"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 10:29 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued October 11 at 6:29AM EDT until October 11 at 1:00PM EDT by NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC - The Avery Journal-Times"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 10:05 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued October 11 at 6:05AM EDT until October 11 at 9:00AM EDT by NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC - The Avery Journal-Times"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for 3 western NC counties until 9 a.m."
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 07:06 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued October 10 at 11:32PM MST until October 11 at 2:30AM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 11:08 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash flood warning issued for Orange County Sunday morning caused by excessive downpours"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 13:40 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued October 11 at 5:59AM MST until October 11 at 8:30AM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 11:08 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash flood warning issued for Orange County Sunday morning caused by excessive downpours"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 18:56 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for Forsyth Fire burn scar in Washington County"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 21:20 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued for possibly life-threatening conditions in Zion National Park"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 20:53 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood warning issued for Goblin Valley, South Central Emery County"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 21:41 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued as up to 1.25 inches of rain falls near Escalante River"
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· received · event time 11 Oct 2026, 23:44 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Flash Flood Warning issued as up to 1.25 inches of rain falls near Escalante River"
Times are when this site received each report, in UTC; the event time is shown where the source gave one. 35 reports are attached to this incident. Copies of one syndicated story count as one report.