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River Flood Warning 126, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 6, 2022Cherokee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this river flood warning at Dec 6, 2022, 3:42 PM EST for Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 6, 2022, 3:42 PM EST (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Dec 7, 2022, 2:35 AM EST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Cherokee County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Etowah River Downstream I-575 at Canton (ECTG1).

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02391860, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Dec 6, 2:27 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 2:27 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 5, 9:07 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	47 hr
Dec 5, 9:25 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	22 hr
Dec 5, 11:12 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dade	20 hr
Dec 6, 10:33 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	9 hr
Dec 6, 5:17 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 58 more	18 hr

Nearby

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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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.