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Flood Watch 3, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 24, 202671 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this flood watch at May 24, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT for 71 counties in Georgia. It took effect at May 24, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 56 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
In effect from: May 24, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: May 26, 2026, 10:28 PM EDT
In force: 56 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Flood severity: None

All 71 counties

Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Webster County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 35 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 259 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at May 24, 6:31 AM EDT, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:31 AM EDT, 5 hours 59 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
May 23, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	32 min
May 23, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	27 min
May 23, 8:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	28 min
May 23, 8:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	33 min
May 23, 9:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	28 min
May 23, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	33 min
May 23, 9:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Paulding	2 hr
May 23, 9:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson, Treutlen	33 min
May 23, 11:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	3 hr
May 24, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pike	34 min
May 24, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Polk	31 min
May 24, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike, Upson	29 min
May 24, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Pike, Upson	29 min
May 24, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	26 min
May 24, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar, Upson	26 min
May 24, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	27 min
May 24, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	25 min
May 24, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	20 min
May 24, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee	32 min
May 24, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield	29 min
May 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	18 min
May 24, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper	16 min
May 24, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stewart, Sumter, Webster	37 min
May 24, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	24 min
May 24, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster	34 min
May 24, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	27 min
May 24, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	26 min
May 24, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	23 min
May 24, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	21 min
May 24, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Dooly, Pulaski	28 min
May 24, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler	27 min
May 24, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	26 min
May 24, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Laurens, Montgomery, Pulaski and 2 more	33 min
May 24, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Peach	15 min
May 24, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	15 min
May 24, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	28 min
May 24, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	10 min
May 24, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Twiggs, Wilkinson	22 min
May 24, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson, Treutlen	28 min
May 24, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	14 min
May 24, 7:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Madison	18 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.