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River Flood Warning 194, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 12, 2024Montgomery County, Treutlen County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this river flood warning at Mar 12, 2024, 9:45 AM EDT for Montgomery County, Treutlen County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It took effect at Mar 12, 2024, 9:32 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 12, 2024, 9:45 AM EDT (13:45 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 12, 2024, 9:32 PM EDT
Expired
Mar 17, 2024, 3:21 PM EDT
In force
5 days
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Oconee River at Highway 280 near Mount Vernon (MTVG1). The gauge peaked at 17.20 ft at Mar 14, 2024, 12:00 PM EDT.

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Action stage
14 ft
Minor stage
16 ft
Moderate stage
20 ft
Major stage
23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02224500, 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 Mar 11, 2:52 PM EDT, 18 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 2:52 PM EDT, 18 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 1:03 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee22 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Georgia, 2024Every river flood warning in 2024

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.