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River Flood Warning 58, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 17, 2023Whitfield County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this river flood warning at Feb 17, 2023, 3:35 PM EST for Whitfield County, Georgia. It took effect at Feb 18, 2023, 2:18 AM EST. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 17, 2023, 3:35 PM EST (20:35 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 18, 2023, 2:18 AM EST
Expired: Feb 19, 2023, 7:21 AM EST
In force: 29 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Coahulla Creek at Keiths Mill Road near Dalton (CHCG1).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 28 ft
Major stage: 32 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02385170, 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 Feb 17, 2:49 PM EST, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 2:49 PM EST, 46 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
Feb 16, 9:11 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	49 min
Feb 17, 2:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dade	27 hr
Feb 17, 5:02 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Spalding	16 min
Feb 17, 6:21 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb	3 hr
Feb 17, 6:28 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	5 hr
Feb 17, 7:53 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski	22 min
Feb 17, 8:29 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	7 hr
Feb 17, 1:26 PM EST	Wind Advisory	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb and 21 more	12 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.