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River Flood Warning 338, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 29, 2024Forsyth County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this river flood warning at Dec 29, 2024, 12:18 PM EST for Forsyth County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 29, 2024, 12:18 PM EST (17:18 UTC)
Expired
Dec 29, 2024, 3:27 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Forsyth County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Big Creek at GA 9 near Cumming (CMGG1).

Action stage
4 ft
Minor stage
6 ft
Moderate stage
12 ft
Major stage
15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02335580, 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 29, 10:58 AM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 29, 10:58 AM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 29, 9:15 AM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 29, 9:57 AM EST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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Local storm report, Dec 29, 10:27 AM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Local storm report, Dec 29, 11:05 AM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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Local storm report, Dec 29, 11:07 AM EST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 29, 2:06 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade24 min
Dec 29, 2:32 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattooga, Dade, Walker43 min
Dec 29, 3:05 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCarroll, Heard25 min
Dec 29, 3:12 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot, Troup63 min
Dec 29, 3:16 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCoweta, Heard44 min
Dec 29, 3:16 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard29 min
Dec 29, 3:25 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot, Taylor and 1 more65 min
Dec 29, 3:28 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHaralson, Paulding32 min
Dec 29, 3:56 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding49 min
Dec 29, 4:02 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Clayton, Coweta, Crawford, Fayette, Henry and 8 more58 min
Dec 29, 4:11 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCCoweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Spalding16 min
Dec 29, 4:31 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMacon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster44 min
Dec 29, 4:37 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCherokee, Clayton, Dawson, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton and 3 more38 min
Dec 29, 4:53 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Bibb, Butts, Crawford, Henry, Houston and 13 more67 min
Dec 29, 5:15 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBleckley, Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Macon, Pulaski and 1 more45 min
Dec 29, 5:19 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBanks, Barrow, Dawson, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and 4 more41 min
Dec 29, 5:35 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke, Oconee, Walton40 min
Dec 29, 5:51 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Bleckley, Dodge, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 10 more54 min
Dec 29, 6:03 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCrisp, Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox42 min
Dec 29, 6:41 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDodge, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Telfair and 5 more49 min
Dec 29, 6:54 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Washington66 min
Dec 29, 7:20 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMontgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler55 min
Dec 29, 7:48 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementFFCEmanuel27 min

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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.