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Flood Watch 10, NWS Atlanta, GA

October 26, 200942 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flood watch at Oct 26, 2009, 4:34 PM EDT for 42 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Oct 27, 2009, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 2009, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 27, 2009, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 27, 2009, 7:05 PM EDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Flood severity
None
All 42 counties

Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Oct 26, 5:20 AM EDT, 11 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 5:20 AM EDT, 11 hours 14 minutes before
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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.