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River Flood Warning 105, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 4, 2025Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this river flood warning at May 4, 2025, 2:23 PM EDT for Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It took effect at May 4, 2025, 3:17 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2025, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
In effect from: May 4, 2025, 3:17 PM EDT
Expired: May 4, 2025, 10:12 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Murray County, GA, Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Conasauga River at GA 286 near Eton (ETNG1).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02384500, 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 May 4, 1:41 PM EDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 1:41 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 12:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 4, 2:16 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 2:20 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 2:22 PM EDT, 1 minute 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
May 3, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette	37 min
May 3, 8:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	34 min
May 3, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	26 min
May 3, 8:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	23 min
May 3, 8:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry	19 min
May 3, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	29 min
May 3, 8:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	37 min
May 3, 8:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fayette, Spalding	9 min
May 3, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	31 min
May 3, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Walton	25 min
May 3, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Clayton, Henry, Newton, Rockdale	39 min
May 3, 8:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Upson	35 min
May 3, 9:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	20 min
May 3, 9:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot, Taylor	40 min
May 3, 9:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	16 min
May 3, 9:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	36 min
May 3, 9:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton	30 min
May 3, 9:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Newton	27 min
May 3, 9:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Talbot, Upson	39 min
May 3, 9:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe	29 min
May 3, 9:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Jasper	29 min
May 3, 9:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Jasper, Morgan, Newton	18 min
May 3, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam	32 min
May 3, 9:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crawford, Lamar, Monroe, Upson	42 min
May 3, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart	30 min
May 3, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes	53 min
May 3, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Monroe	25 min
May 3, 10:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	30 min
May 4, 11:19 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Whitfield	30 hr

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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.