Chris we are already saturated because of the rain yesterery. More downpour today could lead to localized flooding. Flood watches remain in effect through tomorrow morning. We see pretty good thunderstorms from greenwood into columbia. Look at the frequent lightening north of columbia. If you are travelingngown the 385, you will run into pretty good d dnpours in parts of abbeville and greenwood. If you counties of North Carolina and along the South Carolina border have that flood watch. After early tomorrow morning, this will all be gone and we get a nice break for a couple days. Be ready if you live in a floodprone area. We could have some more food with could have some more localized flooding. It could reach anywhere from 6466 in the mountains and upstate today. We will talk about a cooler and drier weekend in our next report. Aly thank you, dale. As dale said, our area is under a flood watch. Water rushed from the dam. The lake is in a heightened water condition. The water will flow
Troopers say it happened about 1 30 this morning. We are working to get more information on what happened. Aly turning to the weather. Across the midwest and south, people are cleaning up from Severe Weather that continues today. Hundreds of homes are underwater in missouri. The Mississippi River is expected to rise to close to 15 feet above flood stage. On the video on the right, you are showing you are seeing what last nights rain left behind. Some showers in our area right now. Dale will tell us much more. Dale more scattered showers and thunderstorms today, perhaps, rit will not take as much because the ground is wet and saturated. Any heavy downpours could lead to localized flooding. That will be the story through early tomorrow and tonight cooler and drier weather starts to be felt come saturday, sunday, and monday and tuesday. So any days are coming. Cold or days, too. Did 60s it today for the upstate and the mountains and not quite as warm as yesterday where he tied a record ge
Afternoon that could have us experiencing flooding. Be careful as you make your plans. This will be the last rain event we will see and it will be over by early tomorrow morning. Then, drier weather settles in. Behind that front, temperatures will be in the 20s and 30s overnight. 61 in greenville. 52 in asheville. We will see highs in the mountains add 64. 57 in spartanburg. The end of the day, we will see a temperature from 6667 as a high. It gets back to normal as we get into the weekend. We will talk more about that, coming up. Mike we have a live look at the the lake is in a high water condition. The water will flow into the saluted river downstream into lake murray. The dam there was never in danger of collapsing. Aly in landrum, people are still dealing with the effect of the rain monday night. Mike the manager at caroland farms says the Pacolet River overflowed spilling onto the land around it. All of the farms cattle were moved to safety. So far, it doesnt look like any equipme
Out to sea, we will get a lot of rainfall tomorrow. Well have had flooding reports at home, landslides in the mountains, and because of the saturated soil and the rain tomorrow, we have a flood watch in effect until thursday at 7 00 a. M. Let mes let me timeout the rain for you. Rain free now, but by 4 00 a. M. , scattered showers move in burien the rain will pick up as the day goes on. Some showers will be heavy. A blanket of rain across anderson. By lunchtime, solid, driving rainfall. The yellows and reds indicate onetwo inch rain rates per hour. Very wet out there throughout the day. Then it gets cold. The next eight hours in greenville, weibel stay dry we will stay dry. More on the forecast coming up. Michael in asheville, flooding, power outages, and several rescues. The rain overnight took a toll. Firefighters had to save a family in a minivan after Swannanoa River road flooded. They were able to throw the family life jackets, and help bring them to safety. There was flooding els
So much mud has collected in the parking lots. People are trying to push the mud out of the way. Nigel now, were taking a live look outside at downtown spartanburg through our wofford sky cam. You can see blue skies right now in the air, and it is still warm out there for december. Gabrielle wyff news 4s meteorologist chris justus is in our studio tracking the latest. Chris, any more rain on the way . Chris another round of heavy rainfall tomorrow, then it will clear out and roll down in time for the new year. The front towards columbia, it moves further south. We will see more rain along the front into our area tonight and into tomorrow. Take a look at the storm reports. I gave you across theory of. Wind damage and lighting. Towards charlotte, a tornado report. Check out this video. Pretty intense towards union county near monroe. This is south of charlotte. You can see the damage from the tornado there in union county. Evil cleaning up this morning, the tornado was 75 yards wide and